I think my music is like anchovies - some people like it, some people get nauseous.

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

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 come from nowhere Brooklyn, New York. Williamsburg, Brooklyn. These days Williamsburg is kind of a hip area, but when I grew up there, the taxi drivers wouldn't even go over the bridge, it was so dangerous.

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

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

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.