I Always Had This Energy Level That

People Are Always Defining And Re-defining Music. My Style Of Playing Has Been Characterized As Smooth Jazz And Acid Jazz. I Listen As I Play; I'm Not Caught Up In Defining The Type Of Music I Play.

I Don't Think I'm Really So Unique. If Every Black Person Looked At Their Life They Would Quickly Discover That They Have Been Influenced By Every Type Of Music Prevalent In America.

But I Did Mine Through A Production Company. All The Music I Did, I Gave To The Production Company. Then The Production Company Would Give The Record Company The Album. I Used To Do All My Albums Like That. It Was Fantastic. But Now, Understand, I Have Never Planned To Do Anything With These Other Tapes. The One That Are Released, Like The Virgin Ubiquity You Have There, I Wasn't Going To Do Anything With That Music. One Day, I Was Talking To This Guy That Owns Bbe Over In England, And I Said I've Got Some Tapes And Stuff That You Might Be Interested In, And He Went Berserk.

Most Artists Have Contracts Directly With The Record Company, And When They Do Music, All Of Their Music Is Owned By The Record Company. But I Did Mine Through A Production Company.

I Don't Like Rap That You Can't Understand. The Youth Is So Quick And Alert.