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I was making more electronic and synth-based music, and when I changed my name, it helped me grow and liberate myself a little bit.

My career was really odd, because I literally had a greatest hits album out and nobody knew who I was. They knew the songs, but they didn't know me.

When I got into the music industry, I wasn't focused on being the most famous artist or even getting a major record deal. It was just to make music on my own terms or create my own image, do my own hair, do my own makeup.

I decided to combine my musical background, business education and creative abilities - and go into the record business.

I started a recording studio. I started producing people and doing remixes.

I realized that I wanted to get better in every way. As a person, as a friend, as a songwriter, as a musician, as an artist, record producer, you name it.

I don't ever use my name for anything in terms of getting the music heard.

People need to put my music in a perspective where they use other established artists from the past, and almost all the names I see related to my music are great musicians.

I certainly have gotten caught up in the music business at various times in my life, mostly because you want to get along with whatever record company you're dealing with. I don't want to be flaky. I don't want to be some temperamental, hard-to-work-with musician.

I didn't really even think of recording under my own name for a long time. I thought, 'I've got the rest of my life to do that.'