I never wanted to be a performer, that was not one of my goals. I wanted to be a musician and that was that.

To write a love song that might be able to make it on the radio, that is something that is terrifying to me. But I can definitely write a song about that chair over there. That I can do, but to sit and write a pop song out of the clear blue sky, that is very difficult and I admire the people that can do it.

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

My hair was slicked down with a part. But that was before I discovered the blow-dryer. Now I'm fabulous.

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

The dark night of the soul for me was one night in Florida, when I had been on the road for about four years and I realized that everybody around me was on my payroll, that my old friends hadn't been in touch with me and my family didn't know where to get me. I was a very unhappy guy and it was because I was really alone.

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