Whenever there was a choice between music and anything else, music won hands down every time.

Whenever there was a choice between music and anything else, music won hands down every time.

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.

I keep reading about people who want to be famous - it's not that they want to be great songwriters or great actors, they want to be celebrities. That is scary because you can be famous doing some really stupid things.

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.

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

My style of music is the great American songbook meets the pop world of the Seventies and Eighties.