Robin Thicke wishes he had the whole Paula Patton experience to do over again.

In a recent New York Times interview, the "Blurred Lines" singer doesn't delve much into all the years he and the "Precious" star were married, but he does admit the way he went about trying to win her back after they publicly split is not the view he wants the world to have of him.

Back then, Thicke lamented to anyone willing to listen how much he wanted to reconcile with his now ex-wife, to the point of pouring his heart out in a tearjerker of an album he not so coincidentally named "Paula."

"I came home, and my best friend of 20 years, Craig Crawford, said, 'I saw your BET performance,'" Thicke recalled.

To make a long story short, Thicke remembers walking away from that conversation convinced that he needed some time away and a new perspective on how he was going about handling things and where his life headed.

"You're kind of playing yourself. You look like a sucker," Thicke also recalls Crawford telling him. "And it hit me that I'd lost my perspective," he said. "What I thought was romantic was just embarrassing."

Thicke now sees how he allowed the personal crisis he was going through to effect everything in his world, including his music. Two weeks after he separated from Patton, Thicke claims he was forced to give his deposition in the "Blurred Lines" song controversy where he and Pharrell Williams were ultimately ordered by a court to pay the family of Marvin Gaye a handsome sum after it was determined they sampled his music in the tune.

While Thicke still maintains he knows "the difference between inspiration and theft," he admits that he was a bit distracted during court proceedings and probably didn't give his best effort.

"It simply wasn't as important to me as what was going on in my personal life," he said. "I was lost at the time. I had lost my way."

Thicke admits drugs, alcohol and his ego also played a significant part in the rough patch he's been through.