shout out to madeleine grace. she's probably asleep, but, yeah, i'm a proud papa. >> another birth of sorts, a new album. >> yes. >> tell me about it. >> based off a short story i wrote of the same name. lib ra scale. and the story beckons the question, if you had to choose between love versus money, power, and fame, which way would the scales tip for you as a person? ♪ ♪ >> did you see yourself ending up here when you started off? >> you know what, i knew that i was going to do music. i didn't know in what way. i didn't know whether it would be writing for people or doing something myself. i just knew from age 9 that it was going to be music. i've always been annoyingly optimistic person, even in the situation where no food in the house or whatever the case may be, i don't know how i'm going to pay this bill, whatever the case may be, i always fell like it's temporary. because once the music thing happens, everything is going to be all right. sure enough, mama don't have to work no more. >> that's a beautiful thi