Paul Potts has revealed it was his wife's idea to cover songs by Guns N' Roses and Foo Fighters for his latest album.

The Britain's Got Talent winner, who has found global music success since winning the first series of the ITV show in 2007, took his time making fourth album Home and described how he wanted the record to be " really quite different and to cut across genre boundaries and re-record a great cross-section of music".

Included are versions of Guns N' Roses hit November Rain and title track Home, a Foo Fighters' song.

"They were my wife's idea," he said. "The crossover album is well trodden, and you shouldn't do something different just to do something different, but you also have to find songs that haven't been done before.

"So many classical songs have a stamp on them by an artist. I didn't want this to be a musical curveball or a change in direction. I've always had this idea that music belongs to everyone, not any one group of people."

Paul spoke about why it had taken two years to make the album.

"My producer and I sat down and worked on basic arrangements of the songs, and songs that didn't go on the album, and we just really played around with it and planned it before committing to anything," he said.

"It was really good to have that involvement, it's the most involved I've been in any of my records, I was involved at every stage."

Explaining how he chose the songs for Home, he said: " I put a load of songs on my iPhone that I was considering, and then after a while I looked at which I'd listened to most, and they were the ones we pursued. I started with 200 songs, and the process of elimination took them down to about 20.

"They are all songs that meant something to me. You have to sing songs that mean something to you, whether you've written them or not."

He also revealed why he had chosen the album's title Home.

"It's about music being like home to me. In tough times, in school and things, it was the one place that I felt at home, the one place I belonged. There is a Foo Fighters song on there called Home, which is convenient."

:: Paul Potts' fourth album Home is out now, and he tours the UK from October 23.