Also, I need deadlines, just like everybody else, especially coming from magazines, newspapers, and stuff like that. I need daily or weekly deadlines to get stuff done, or I continue to do things and not go off on a year of unproductivity.
My parents met when they were graduate students at UC Berkeley in the 1960s. They were both active in the civil-rights movement.
I would like my album to be on the pop side with a little bit of soul. I would like to make music that is on the top of the charts right now.