I used to play pianos in bars. You know in hotels, you'd see guys playing piano with a snifter? That was me, with a painted-on mustache. I was about 15.

I grew up in a time where anything was possible.

I just want people to take a step back, take a deep breath and actually look at something with a different perspective. But most people will never do that.

You know, most of my career I wrote about moments in time. All of us have felt one thing or another and it didn't last very long. Now I'm drawing from real experience. It's a huge difference.

I'm constantly being courted by labels and their backing. Obviously the market is there when you talk about the economics and the numbers, but it's hard to give up the freedom of being able to do whatever you want.

I hate the pigeonholing that's happened in the music business in the last 30 years.

I decided I am not going to say things I do not mean anymore.