It's amazing to hear, as a voice matures and then starts to decline, what kind of emotion is still conveyed by a really good vocalist.

When you're doing the traditional musicals, singing songs that are 40 and 50 years old, you realize there's a reason why those musicals are hits. These are amazing songs!

The country experience was more of a departure. When you consider my education and my upbringing, you can see that was more of country rock outgrowth of my popular music aspirations.

I have no experience performing that music live in front of an audience. So that remains to be seen. I'm very excited to see what that's going to be like.

With Schubert, a lot of the melodies are very simple, but he's in this groove. He's in touch with his heart.

I've made it clear to my agents that I want more interesting stuff.

I'm facing upstage, with my back to the audience, and the spotlight comes up on my back as I start singing.