When the audience leaves, I'd like them to feel positive when they go.

I've been lucky. I've had this history of having an appeal to more than one type of audience.

I can't live off of yesterday - that's in the past.

And looking at today's music scene, I think it's cool that there are a lot of consumers and fans not limited by what radio and the record companies tell them to buy.

But these days, I get a lot more attention and airplay from the Adult Contemporary and country radio stations, and I feel comfortable saying I'm a part of that.

I never stopped working, but I did let my contract run out. And I didn't really actively pursue it.

In between that time, I've done book narrating, you know, books on tape for Dove Audio.