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.

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 love any opportunity I have to make music.

I think my music is like anchovies - some people like it, some people get nauseous.

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

What we hear now is great-sounding records with great-sounding grooves and loops. And the sound of these records is irresistible, but the craft of songwriting is just about over. That's why, whenever I get an opportunity to do an album full of standards, I jump at it because I miss it.

You can't possibly prepare for what happens to you the day you hit No. 1 and people treat you differently.