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You can enjoy many different types of music. I think that's something more Americans should think about.

I have been long associated with British music. I have favoured it as my alternate music next to American.

I've had my ups and downs, and I definitely have a sense - in America, especially - that once you've made your mark and gotten your Rolling Stone piece and your Grammy nomination, that they're on to the next piece of meat, and they don't necessarily like to follow the twists and turns of an artistic career.

I'm involved in all things musical. It's all consuming, even if it doesn't necessarily manifest as a record or a concert.

My music is pretty versatile; I have a lot of genres and styles. I don't think I should be pigeonholed into one thing. So we'll see where my career goes.

I've always been attracted to multicultural music. It's where the world is going.

I'm quite an eclectic musician.

I get interested in the various ways that music is being done in the culture, and some of it I like thoroughly enough to want to learn about it. The way I have been successful at doing that is to become part of it.

I'm thrilled that country music fans like my stuff, but so do a lot of people outside of country music, people who just love music. My goal is more to reach music lovers than to appeal to a genre. I love country music, and I'm proud to represent it, but I don't obsess over it as a category.

I'm not going to choose between classical, Broadway or pop. I would love to stay where I am now - a mix of everything.