chandler, jesse and sonny. what do the kids think of it out >> here? they love it. >> reporter: yeah. >> yeah. they're like different kids. no -- tv went like way down. computer time, and they're outside playing. >> reporter: sandra bullock also has a home in austin. he'd hoped to keep a relationship for the sake of the children including louis, the baby sang dradra adapted as single parent. so it was here in austin that jesse james started to write about his painful journey. his tough early life in long beach, his three marriages about how a welder became one of the most famous names in the world of motorcycles. he put it all in his new memoir "american outlaw." is the book going to redeem your image? >> i didn't write the book to make myself look better. i wrote it just the truth. >> reporter: and he has a new love, kat von d. a friend for many years who shares his passion for tattoos