With the a cappella groups, every voice is like one string on a guitar, one note on the piano, or one cymbal, and you don't have the luxury of falling back on anything.

The guitar is a small orchestra. It is polyphonic. Every string is a different color, a different voice.

I'm not really a strange person or anything, so if there's music I like, usually there's other people who like it too.

Billy Joel and Joe Jackson were both great, and they both play piano.

But I really do have a soft spot for the solo shows. Any musician who writes and sings will tell you that's the center of it, that is it. It's almost like there's something church-like about it and you gotta go back there, if you're a songwriter that sings your material.

Everyone, when you're a teenager and you're growing up, you do feel like your life is dramatic enough to be on a TV screen, but we know that it's not.