I was always into the music. Music, in general, saved my life. But the fame part... I would look up, see what was going on around me, the reporters and photographers and all, and then I would just go back to making my music.

I am a musician. My passion for music has obliterated everything in its path for my entire life.

I am nervous that the craft of songwriting is taking a nose dive...And since I'm a songwriter and I connect with an interpretative, you know, interpretation of a song, I miss it. I just miss it.

For a Jewish guy, I've recorded a lot of Christmas albums.

First of all, I've been having a wonderful run of luck with cover albums, songs I didn't write. I had five pop cover albums and two Christmas albums, and they were all very successful.

You know, when I did 'American Idol' the three times, I tried to tell these kids you have to tell the story of the lyric.

I'm still hungry. I've still got a million ideas. I'm still strong and ready to create.