The U.S. leg of his “Let Love Rule” 20th anniversary tour brought Lenny Kravitz back to the United States after living for the past two years in Paris.

“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.”