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I wanted to put out a solo record because I was stuck on a major label and sick of it.

By the time I did that third solo album, I'd finally learned how to do it, but I'd also learned that I liked being in a band.

I did a lot of writing for a lot of different kinds of bands that I was in and out of during those five years and that left me with a little body of songs that I liked better when I played alone, so I ended up going out solo and very soon made my first album.

The whole time I was with 'The Temptations', I was accumulating my own solo recordings.

I never envisioned myself as a solo artist; I was always part of a band.

When you're in a band with three writers, three great writers, you only get one third of the writer thing. So that's the whole reason that I did a solo career. And that's, you know, when I told Fleetwood Mac I was going to do that, they were of course terrified that I would do that record and then that I would quit.

As funny as it sounds, the best thing I got out of making a solo record was to realize how much I love being in a band.

The thing for me is I never had this burning desire to do a solo record my whole life.

With the first album, I wanted to do so many different things, and I was fighting with myself to try and see if I was worthy enough to do it.