Pauletta: Love & Life dropped on September 9th and soon after you kicked off this tour in Jacksonville. How has this tour been different than the last one you did for Hurricane? How have people been responding to your new songs?

Eric: The response has been incredible. The tour is different because this is really the first tour where Demonte and I have gotten together. Demonte and I have been making the music, but this is the first time that we’ve gone on tour together with a couple of other people from Milwaukee.

Pauletta: On Love & Life, one of the songs that touched my heart is One More Tomorrow, written by you and George Nash. Can you tell me how that song came about?

Eric: I wrote that song when India was born. I was a new father. In the experience of having this little person that I didn’t know that I could love that much. I tried to capture that feeling in a song.

Pauletta: You captured me in that song too.

Pauletta: I’m a jazz head and I love Eric Benet. There were several collaborations you’ve done in the past with jazz artists. I was wondering will you be doing anymore in the future?

Eric: Maybe? For right now, I think Demonte and I are going to focus on producing other R&B artists and making the next album and the next Eric Benet record. So between that and making songs for other artists, that’s going to keep us pretty busy.