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KRAVITZ BACK HOME AFTER 2 YEARS IN PARIS: Plus, singer talks about his role as Nurse John in 'Precious.'
"I moved to Europe because of the climate in America -- and I don't just mean the economy or politics," Kravitz told Billboard.com. "It was also what my record label was going through. People were getting fired every week. There was no money, and people were operating out of fear as opposed to creativity...it just became a drag."
"I was like, 'This is not what I do,'" says Kravitz. "I do what I feel. I don't hire the producer du jour or have so-and-so rap on the middle part of a song."
Now that Kravitz is back, though, he says there's been progress. "I think the relationship is better now. We're talking, we're going to work things out and I'm going to put my next album out next summer. I'm hoping that they will support it in the way that I would like them to."
Kravitz describes his new material as "schizophrenic -- it's a very Gemini album. It's super raw, very raw with a lot of jazz and R&B elements. There's still a rock sound to it, of course, but it's more on the funk side."
If Kravitz's plans hold, he'll finish the new album by December and release it next spring. In the meantime, he has a movie to help promote -- "Precious," the Oscar-contending drama that hits theaters Nov. 6, co-stars Mariah Carey and was directed by Kravitz's longtime friend, filmmaker Lee Daniels.
"I play Nurse John, who's an interesting character," he says. "He's not in the original book. They wrote him in to have a positive African American male role." Though the singer didn't film any scenes with Carey in "Precious," he was as impressed as many critics upon seeing her performance. "Mariah was amazing -- what can I say? She was truly in the role, you know, talking with this heavy New York accent and looking like an everyday social worker. She transformed."
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