Radio host and celebrity interviewerElvis Duranhas sat down with every major pop artist and rockstar fromLady Gagato Adele. Once again he’s getting honest and candid in an interview—except this time, the subject is himself.

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“There’s always more to an artists’s music,” Duran, 54, tells PEOPLE. “Each artist has a story in them, and it’s amazing to have them come in and talk about what inspires them in their life to write their songs.” Of how he manages to get them to be so personal, he says, “A lot of the times, artists will open up about their personal life once they’re given the opportunity to talk about what went into making their songs and how they got there — it’s an organic way to get them to open up.”

Elvis Duran’s upcoming memoir.Simon & Schuster

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The cover art forWhere Do I Begin?was just released in advance of the fall street date.

“All I really want, at the end of the day, is for people to look back on their own lives and recognize a moment they spent with me and my radio family as one of those moments that mattered,” says Duran in a statement. “Notbecause of anything especially insightful we said. But because we were there for them.”

source: people.com