First of all, I've been having a wonderful run of luck with cover albums, songs I didn't write. I had five pop cover albums and two Christmas albums, and they were all very successful.

For a Jewish guy, I've recorded a lot of Christmas albums.

I like businesses in transition, first of all. If ever there were a business in transition, it is publishing.

My first five albums were triple-platinum, and I played a lot of concerts.

QVC has been very good to me.

To write a love song that might be able to make it on the radio, that is something that is terrifying to me. But I can definitely write a song about that chair over there. That I can do, but to sit and write a pop song out of the clear blue sky, that is very difficult and I admire the people that can do it.