I stay glued to my piano and my work. I don't look up. I write, I produce, I do the next project, I do my job. I don't look up, and I try to be kind. I try to be kind to people. That's what I do.

Here's proof that if you live long enough, anything is possible.

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.

I've been up, down, trying to get the feeling again. All around, trying to get the feeling again. The one that makes me shiver, made my knees start to quiver.

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

I am nervous that the craft of songwriting is taking a nose dive...And since I'm a songwriter and I connect with an interpretative, you know, interpretation of a song, I miss it. I just miss it.

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