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

I feel that after all those horrible reviews and jokes, I wasn't crazy all these years to stand up for the music I believe in. This album has proven that somewhere in the human race, the human heart is still racing and breaking and I am so grateful.

Everybody has to find out: who are you? What do you believe in?

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

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

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.

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.