I Decided I Am Not Going To

I've Been A Jazz Artist Playing Pop And R&b My Entire Career.

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.

Jazz Is All About Improvisation And It's About The Moment In Time, Doing It This Way Now, And You'll Never Do It This Way Twice. I've Studied The Masters. Why Would I Want To Play Ball After The Guys Who Sit On A Bench? I Want To Play Like Michael Jordan.

Everything I Have Now Is So Real, So Vivid.

I Kinda Went Back To That Period Between '88 And '94 Where I Felt Like I Was The Most Creative, Without Being Hindered By Powers That Be. I Was No Longer Going To Try To Hinder Myself To What I Thought Was Going To Be On The Radio.