You were initially known as a song writer, now here you are singing yourself, was this planned?

Well I think it was my initial dream and then because of fear and failure and actually the fear of putting myself out there and being criticized or ridiculed, I started writing and producing for other people and I took years and years of just sitting on my ass. You know people would ask why I wasn’t doing my own music and I woke up one day and I thought to myself I had better start working on my music.

This project is called The Evolution of Robin Thicke. Are you going to blow us away with this project?

I think this entails what we all try our best to do and don’t necessarily accomplish and that is be a better person and put right mistakes we may have made, you know we may have done people wrong or have been done wrong ourselves and we are trying to evolve into a happier place. You know there have been times when I have fallen flat on my face and have had to get back up and start over and I think everyone goes through the emotions of that and going through the motions of needing love and its universal with the stories I have on this album. There are things on there that everyone in the world goes through at some point in their life; you know redemption and overcoming all the obstacles that they come up against.

So it is relatable?

Yes… there is a lot of information; you know there are 16 songs. I felt that people deserved to get their moneys worth. It took me two years to make this album and I wrote 60/70 songs and I felt like I didn’t want the people to get the music and then wish they wanted more. I wanted them to feel that they were getting a huge amount of music that they can listen to and love for a very long time. I just hope people like it as much as I do.

You have been compared to Jamaroquai, Remy Shand, Justin Timberlake, does it bother you that you get all these comparisons when you are trying to be yourself, you know be an individual?

(With) most people the older they get the less they want to believe in magic, you know when we are kids we first start by feeling something and then we start describing what its like and what it used to be like and who is better than the best. But the reality of it is that it starts from a feeling and a lot of people can’t open up their hearts first before they open up their minds and I think that anyone who is really listening wouldn’t compare me to any of those. But most people don’t take it as serious as I do and I can’t expect them to go as far into it as I do. You know they are going to love what they love and then some people won’t even listen to my music, may never know me and may never want to. That is the beauty of the universe. Continued on page 4 »