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.

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

Fame is always a shock to the system; there's no school to go to, there are no books to read, and when it hits you, it's a surprise. You could be working for 10, 20 years and when it finally hits you, you get knocked down.

I think the people who are out there for fame get themselves in a lot of trouble.

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

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