Ever since he won American Idol, the rocker’s life has been nothing but about music. ”Time of My Life”, David Cook’s first single is platinum. His self-titled album also is platinum and had him working with songwriting heavyweights John Rzeznik from the Goo Goo Dolls, 1980s pop singer Cathy Dennis and Chris Cornell from Soundgarden and Audioslave. David Cook revealed, ”To work with these people that I’ve looked up to for years and have them treat me as a peer was the most fun aspect of this whole process.”

David Cook says he was lucky 19 Recordings and RCA Records let him make the record he wanted. ”I feel like this is the record I would have made with or without ‘Idol,’ with or without RCA, with or without 19,” he said. ”It just allows me to go onstage with the confidence and a passion for those songs that I believe is one of the reasons people have shown up the way they have and people have embraced the record the way they have.”