I am a musician. My passion for music has obliterated everything in its path for my entire life.

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.

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

Everything you say and do is having an impact on others.

'If I Should Love Again' - I was just so impressed with myself writing something like that. It wasn't a single and people didn't really know about it, but it's a beautiful song and that's part of what I'm loving.

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.

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.