From a new interview with Chris Botti on www.livedaily.com
 
LiveDaily: How did you go about choosing which songs you were going to record for the DVD and PBS special?
I'm very, very particular about the material that I do--with the one exception. Sting chose a song called "What are You Doing the Rest of Your Life?" That was his choice. In fact, there's a very funny story behind it. The song is very, very deceptively difficult. It's a very, very difficult song to sing. [Botti sings in an off-key voice.] "What are you doing ... " I can't even sing it and I'm a trained musician. I was joking with that voice. [Laughs] It's a very tricky interval. It takes an amazingly accurate singer to sing that song. I asked him afterward, "Why did you chose that song?" He said a fan, some woman, stopped him on Fifth Avenue in New York and said, "Hey Sting, you ought to record this song 'What are You Doing the Rest of Your Life?'" He said OK, and we recorded it. Literally, that's how random it was. I said in the TV special, "If you're that fan, thank you for stopping him." Fans never know what kind of impact they have on musicians. A lot of times, they think they mention something to someone and there's no way they would take my advice. But all the other material, I chose for everyone and tried to make it, like, stylized to fit the arc of their different voices. There's so many different voices, and so many different kinds of approaches to the music. I tried to make it appropriate to each person.