THE VOICE Top 5: Behind-the-Scenes at the iTunes Recording Session

On his song, "Carry On": "It's a great song, actually. It might be one of my favorite ones I've gotten so far. It took a minute to grow on me, but it got there...we thought we were going to go in there -- we heard they had cleared .fun, and we thought it was going to be 'Some Nights' or something like that. And I was like, I guess I'm going to sing 'Some Nights.' And then I went through the songs and went, 'Wait a second, is this the right song? I thought it was going to be 'We Are Young' or 'Some Nights' and I listened to 'Carry On' and they had a point. 'Some Nights' would have been too choral for me to showcase...it would have been harder to find my own personality."

On doing one song this week versus two: "You can't put it all on one song...If you're just a powerhouse right away and the talk of the house in the Blinds [round], going forward, people are going to expect you to impress them even more than you've already impressed them. I tried to come hard with it at the Blinds, but I guess I just got in my head a little bit and went full powerhouse on it."

On his recording studio experience: "I grew up recording in a way. I produce a lot myself, I know the mikes...everything I write, I lay down, record, edit and produce. This is more of a quick process because we have to get it out quick."