What kind of record do you see yourself making?
I'd actually like to get more into the rock or some soulful rock, maybe like a twist of blues on it. I'd love to see myself as a lead man with a piano and a band around me and touring and doing good music, maybe to the likes of Gavin DeGraw and The Fray and stuff like that.

The judges gave you a hard time over your song choices. Did that affect you?
It did a little bit, but not that much. I still picked them if they moved me and if I loved singing them. So at the end of the day I'm not going to change what I like and going to still keep doing the same kind of stuff. I got tons of e-mails and comments about those songs from fans that they loved them. So that kind of reassured me a little bit.

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