I was always in bands before, but on 'American Idol,' it was about getting my voice out there. It was always my goal, though, to get a band together again.

I did exactly what I wanted to do. It was always my intention to put a band together and be a band and not be about the solo pop guy. That was never me. All of the musicians that made me do what I wanted to do were bands. I didn't see it any other way.

Ed Kowalczyk is my favorite singer.

For me, something will come in my head and I'll either end up calling my cell phone to record it, or I'll just pick my guitar up and see what comes out. Sometimes it sucks, sometimes it doesn't. So there's really no set method behind it.

You marry somebody; you love everything about them. You grow to learn about them. You never learn everything.

In the '90s, guitar solos were dead.

Maybe some people thought I was 'safe' so they didn't really bothered to vote for me at all.