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

These days, with 'American Idol' and all the other reality shows, young people become famous overnight, and that can be very difficult to handle, the way photographers follow you around and study your every move.

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

The public needs to know - they need to know as much about atrial fibrillation as they do about cancer and diabetes.

'If I Should Love Again' - I was just so impressed with myself writing something like that. It wasn't a single and people didn't really know about it, but it's a beautiful song and that's part of what I'm loving.

When it comes to me, I just write the most beautiful music I can, I do the best work I can, and then I hand it out there.

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.