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.

Most of the stuff I learned to play, I learned in high school. I had a band in high school, a jazz-fusion thing, and I was the keyboard player. I was interested in how the instruments worked and the theory behind playing with them.

For me able to do the records I want to do and not have to worry about this producer or that producer or that trend, I'm not really interested in that.

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

I just want to be as creative as I possibly can.

I write about moments, and I don't make blanket statements about anything because no one has all the answers; nobody's come up with a foolproof way to do anything when it comes to emotions.

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.