As for me, I rarely write a song. But when I do write a song, like "Ain't No Chimneys in the Projects," which came to me at three a.m. one morning, on a whim - I get a percentage.

My friend Megan Holken is a nutritionist. I have spent some time at her home upstate in Sharon Springs, where she told me how to eat right and cook right.

I'm coming back to give the people what they want.

Record designers marvel on that stuff. They go back and look at old covers, then make new ones.

I'm singing, you know, because I'm happy and I'm free.

My fans have written me such kind emails. My management at Daptone helped me heal, too. I'm in a good place.

I often call Daptone the Motown and Stax of today. But in some ways it's different. At Motown, a lot of the musicians didn't get recognized, music got stolen, and people didn't get paid. Or the label would just throw them a pinch of money for their songs. That is one thing we're not doing. Anything anyone writes here, we get a percentage.