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 lo….

I watch my contemporaries, and they love to live in the studio and I don't. I have a life. I treat it as a 9-to-5. I try to create something new ever….

Stevie didn't use the technology to drive the song. He used it to enhance. I use the tools to further my work, I don't use my work to further the too….

I just want to be as creative as I possibly can..

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 b….

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 ….

Back in college, when I got kicked out of school, I was still in school, I'd just written the song that got me my record deal. If I hadn't gotten kic….

I'm constantly being courted by labels and their backing. Obviously the market is there when you talk about the economics and the numbers, but it's h….

I've always been serious about music. After you've done it for so many years, you get back to the basics..

I hate the pigeonholing that's happened in the music business in the last 30 years..

Most of the stuff I learned to play, I learned in high school. I had a band in high school, a jazz-fusion thing, and I was the keyboard player. I was….

I don't care how small the game. I want to win..

You can't listen to what people who aren't musical have to say. When Anytime was released, I had bad reviews, and at first I was hurt. Your songs are….

This year I've really decided to get into the best shape of my life, and I've gotten there by changing not only what I eat but when I eat and how oft….

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 fro….

It feels really great to be popular..

The hardest thing to do in this business is to still be around. When music changes, when labels' resources have dried up, it becomes harder and harde….

I grew up in a time where anything was possible..

I've been a jazz artist playing pop and R&B my entire career..

Everything I have now is so real, so vivid..

I was brought up to be a gentleman. That means you know how to walk, talk and dress the part..