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It was a great time to be making music because everything else was changing.

I was working a corporate job, but I really wanted to do music.

When I was coming up in high school, if you wanted to be in the musical it was during the winter, so I had to choose between playing basketball or being in the musical. And I ended up playing basketball.

I'd forgotten what it was like to play music and have it be fun so I decided to stop. I wasn't even sure if I was going to make a new record, I was just kinda quitting.

I was kind of torn between playing music or playing college football. I was going to college and really focusing on my music career.

My house was filled with music. We had a piano, and my brothers and sisters played instruments. Even though I was around it, I played basketball.

Instead of going to college, I spent my time out on the road learning how to be a better musician.

From an early age, music was my only thing. You come from Detroit, you learn how to make the most of what you can do best.

When I was a kid, there was so much talent outside of recorded music.

I loved music - listening and playing - but of course I could not imagine I would be a professional musician. It really happened step by step.