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

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

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

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.

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

No one person or material thing could ever come close to the feeling I get when the music is right.

I think if Unchained Melody does what I think it can do, I think there is an audience out there that would heave a sigh of relief, that finally there is a melody and orchestration, production and a vocalist that is giving them a song that they can just listen to... and not be annoyed by the vocal acrobatics that vocalists seem to think is impressive.