The Top 40 is geared toward 20 and under, not 20 and up. That's the audience I'm geared to

You can't make everybody love what you do, but you can know how great you feel doing it.

When I started studying for the arias it was like going into training for a heavyweight title fight

I was blown away by the control and the range that I was hearing. I'm listening to Pavarotti and thinking, What the hell have I been doing with my voice all these years?

I accept that appearance is a big thing in this business. But being around Hollywood and having actor friends and doing music videos, it does make you more aware of how you look. With music videos they send you rough cuts, and in certain frames of me, I just see a nose advert.

No matter how great we get with digital formats of instrumentation, nothing really quite duplicates the real thing

I like the simple 'I love your work' letters. You never get sick of people's appreciation. They think they're troubling you, but it's lovely people associate my songs with certain moments in their lives.