I'm a piano player. I never thought of myself as a singer, at all. I was always trying to sound like somebody else. I don't like my own voice, I like Ray Charles, Robert Plant, I like Joe Cocker, Rod Stewart, people that have an edge in their voice.

They say that these are not the best of times, but they're the only times I've ever known.

In hell there's a big hotel where the bar just closed and the windows never opened. No phone so you can't call home, and the TV works, but the clicker is broken.

It feels great to have a #1 album.

I am, as I've said, merely competent. But in an age of incompetence, that makes me extraordinary.

Move to California - my first impression of the Wild West.

Like a boxer in a title fight, you have to walk in that ring alone.