Your album took two years, who can we expect to see dropping in to show you love on that project?

I have a song with Faith Evans and I have a song with Pharrell and then I have a track with Lil Wayne and the rest is just me. I wasn’t going to do any collaborations but the reality of it is when you start making music I realize that I have every day to control what I want and make songs for anyone. But at the end of my career if I do 40 or 50 songs with amazingly talented people with the likes of these three that I worked with on this album, it is still a pretty good life. And I am doing it because I want people to feel something special when they hear this music and when I was working those people came very organically, we didn’t force those records and it sort of happened very quickly. Lil Wayne came in at midnight and left at three and we were done with our song. It works like that and that’s the way it’s supposed to be. Lil Wayne loved my first album and he put one of my tracks from that on his new album and I called him and said if he was ever in LA he should come by and do something for my new album and that was it. It was great.

When is the album dropping?

Valentines Day (editor's note: the album has been pushed to March). I want people to have it now, I just want to give it to the world.

Are you writing for the next album already?

Yeah, I woke up this morning and was like I just have to beat this thing now, I am going to have a lot of pressure soon.

Will you be hitting the highways and promoting?

Yeah, we are going to try and get out there and perform to people. I have been thinking so much about how I don’t want to do videos, you know I don’t want to give them a visual to connect to the track I would rather they stayed in their own world.

You think sometimes videos can totally kill a song?

Yes, I am afraid visually I can never live up to the music I create and I can never be as exciting visually as the music can be.

Perhaps that is why music like jazz has such a lasting appeal as there are no videos to accompany it, you know you get to imagine.

Yeah, you get to live in your own picture book so to speak. I mean I could be a total artist and not do videos and not sell as many records, like now I am trying to get people to feel the music and love what the artist does by just being myself. I have to do videos so I will have a chance to sell more albums. If I don’t do that I will just be selling albums on the internet and people will never know, or have a chance to get my music out there. You know I have to keep making music and selling records so I can make more chances.

What chances are those?

I want to try it all. With this album I just wanted to try. With this album I wanted to just liken the heart like there was no-one that existed ever before me or right now. If I didn’t care about being or original what would just pour out of my heart and I ended up with a lot of these songs that I just feel are very special.