I've always been serious about music. After you've done it for so many years, you get back to the basics.

I am a writer - that is what I am before being a performer or musician. I love waking up in the morning and then going to sleep that night with something that did not exist.

I kinda went back to that period between '88 and '94 where I felt like I was the most creative, without being hindered by powers that be. I was no longer going to try to hinder myself to what I thought was going to be on the radio.

It is great to have your own label; you can cultivate your own artists I've worked with pretty much everyone I wanted to.

Stevie didn't use the technology to drive the song. He used it to enhance. I use the tools to further my work, I don't use my work to further the tools.

I've been a jazz artist playing pop and R&B my entire career.

I started as a writer and when I sent my demos out everyone wanted to know who was singing and if that person wanted a record deal.