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.

You know, when I did 'American Idol' the three times, I tried to tell these kids you have to tell the story of the lyric.

Touring is a young man's game, but after 30 years of it, I want to stay home.

My goal was always to be involved in music that would outlive me. And maybe that's actually happening.

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.

Misfits aren't misfits among other misfits.

I was the Justin Bieber of the '70s. Really, I was.