I've developed an audience over the years and I don't want to loose them.

I mean this record does not sound like somebody's maiden voyage.

I grew up with Al Jarreau. We had a band together and worked these places for three years when neither one of us knew we could make a living doing music.

Well, since I produce and pay for my own albums, it is the ultimate freedom.

I would much prefer that they take me as I am, that way the experience is genuine between the both of us.

At the end of '69 I did a gig with Jean Luc Ponty here in L.A. He was an electric violinist.

I've developed an audience over the years and I don't want to loose them.