It Feels Really Great To Be Popular.

By 17, I Had A Whole Band That Would Go In And Play. It Was Called Spontaneous Inventions, After A Bobby Mcferrin Album.

There's Only One Thing That Everyone In This World Has In Common: Whether You Want To Love Somebody And You Want To Be Loved In Return.

I Went Back And Listened To The First Three Albums I Made And Tried To Figure Out What Was Special About Them, Why People Keep Going Back To Them. I Think It Was Because I Didn't Know What I Was Doing. I Had No Idea If They Were Going To Play It On The Radio Or Anything. All I Did Was Write Songs, So That's What I Got Back To.

Every Little Kid That Steps On The Court Or The Field Has Aspirations To Go Pro. I Think Being A Pro Basketball Player Is The Best Job. The Thing I Had To Realize Was That I Can't Do Every Dream That I Have.

I Wanted To Put Jazz On The Record, All The Loves Of Music That I Had On The Record, So I Could Show People I Was Ahead Of My 19 Years. It May Have Been Over The Heads Of Some People.