I listen to music for emotion and I get zero emotion from rap.

I want to do something creative, not just easy.

I mean, MTV or the mainstream media can tell you one thing, but when there are 40,000 people in front of you, who cares about all that?

My vocal style is called bel canto, which is an old Italian vocal style going back hundreds of years.

No, if it was up to me every record would be brand new studio material but Atlantic records asked me to put out a full live record because my tour really did do well last year.

Being a cover artist is not like being a real artist. That's just copying what someone else did.

I'm a TV junkie. I'm always flipping through channels.