How long did it take you to make such an intricate album?

Three years. I took my time with it.

I was telling you that I love that song "Butterfly Girl", it's so beautiful, everyone that hears it loves it. It speaks to a lot of women and I was wondering what inspired you to write that.

The person who played keys on that is the same guy (Tickla) who played on "Days Like This". I wrote the song, Eric Roberson wrote the lyrics. When I came up with the track with Tickla, I knew Eric Roberson was the one. "Change For Me" was one of my all time favorite songs ever, and it was still getting played when at that point. He does speak to a lot of women with his songs and I like making songs for the ladies because ladies buy records! Men don't buy records, ladies buy records. Dudes file share more. And that song, I get a lot of hits on MySpace from women that tell me that that song speaks to them and thank you for making it.

Tell me about the Wonder-Full parties.

We started doing the parties back in '99, we started out really small and then it just grew! By the time we turned around and realized how big it was, Stevie Wonder showed up! He was on tour last year, and then we found out about the New York show at Madison Square Garden. We only do the party once a year in New York to make it something to look forward to. People drive and fly in from all over the place. When we found out the concert was happening, we got the venue, the party happened.

Did you know he was going to come?

We were hoping that he was going to come. A lot of his people were there, some of his family members were there and I knew that right after the concert he had gone out to dinner and we were just waiting, waiting, waiting. At one point I gave up hope. He showed up at 4 in the morning!

I saw a picture of you DJing onstage with Stevie, was it that same night?

He called me a few weeks after the party telling me he wanted to have me onstage with him, playing beats out of my drum machine to accompany him on his keyboard. He's called me before, but I'm usually not around. And Doug E. Fresh actually jumped onstage, I didn't even know he was going to be there. So me, Doug E. and Stevie onstage!

That is amazing. Somewhere in your blog I read you called him "a walking heart." Being onstage with him, having him at your party, what is the biggest impression he left you? Does he really have that energy that people talk about?

Yes! Throughout the whole night there was an aura in the party that is inexplicable. I can't even explain how I felt, but there was an air. There's something about him that's magnetic. I had met him once before that night and I spoke a couple of times but after that night...I felt complete. We've been doing this party for so long and all I've really ever wanted was for him to experience it.

He got onstage and he spoke to the crowd, he made me feel like he's a people's person for sure. And he really cares about people... and life... and love. He's a very sincere individual, and definitely speaks from the heart.

We always do a party in New York around his birthday, which is in May. After that we take the party on the road, wherever we can. We've done it in LA, San Francisco, Philly, Japan, we've done it in Amsterdam.

Are you still active with your WonderWax label?

Yes, I know it's been dormant for a year or two but I'm currently working on the next release. It's a track called "You Should Be Loving Me" and the vocalist is OvaSoul 7. And I'm restructuring things because of the changes that have transpired with the music industry. I was fighting the digital world for a while but there's no way around it and vinyl is not selling as much as it used to. I'm planning on keeping things consistent, putting out tracks every two months.

I'm kinda curious, you're constantly evolving, and you migrate between different genres seamlessly. Do you think you'll ever move on to House tracks without vocals?

That's exactly what I'm doing! [laughs] I want to do tracks, I'm going into techy stuff, that's the kind of stuff I'm trying to make this year because you gotta move with the times.

I'm still so stubborn! Every time I hear the word tech, I still cringe!

Well it depends on how it's done! I'm going to do it the soulful way. You can be soulful and techy at the same time. You still got to have the chord progressions, it's all about the sound.

Well if anyone can pull it off it's you! With all your successes, what style of music are you getting most booked to play for?

Wow, that's a good question. Definitely more for the Househeads. I just came home from Japan, I was there for three weeks and I did do a few gigs that were kind of across the board where they wanted to hear both. But even at those Hiphop sets they want to hear the classics, they want to hear '90s. Because right now the way I look at Hiphop is if you play a lot of the new stuff, it's going to be a young crowd. And the people that come to hear me is not necessarily 21, or 18... they're like 28 and up.

What else do we have to look forward to?

This year I want to accomplish a full-length dance album, which will be the first I've done. I get asked for it a lot, so I think it's the perfect time!