Songfacts®:

• "Live in the Moment" is a collaboration with American rapper Goldlink, whose single "Crew" peaked at #45 on the US Billboard Hot 100 chart in 2017. Craig David told HMV.com the track set the direction for the rest of The Time is Now album. He explained:
  
  "It had this old school kind of feel about it but still felt fresh, like future R&B, and the fact that Goldlink is on it gave it a different thing, like 'oh, OK, if you don't know about Goldlink is, you're soon gonna learn about him.' I think that kind of set the tone, and I think that R&B in 2018 is gonna be peaking. You started to see it early when Brandy & Monica are getting sampled, Ginuwine is getting sampled, all of it was kind of throwback, but on house records.
  
  But you start to see it now where it's ready for a TLC 'No Scrubs ' 2018 version, I mean you've already seen it with Raye's tune ' Decline ', which was produced by Fraser, using the 'Always On Time ' sample from Ashanti and Ja Rule. So it's happening, and I think if you can have new music that's on that wave, it's gonna be a no-brainer."
• The song was produced by Haitian-Canadian DJ Kaytranada, who previously collaborated with Craig David on the Following My Intuition track "Got It Good." David told HMV:
  
  "It's a funny one because he'll send a load of tracks over, it's quite remote the way we work, he will send a pool of tunes over and then I can pull out the ones that are melodic enough for me, that I know I can put melodies to. He has some very abstract tracks as well which for me are sometimes difficult to get the melodies I want over them, I need the chords to try and find it. If you start with chords and then strip them out, you can go as abstract as you want, but for me as a songwriter I need something to start from, so I'd always pull out the more melodic ones and there was one in particular where I was like 'this is a tune', which ended up being 'Live in the Moment'.
  
  "And the timing was great, I was in the studio and I've been following Goldlink for a few years now. He was in town, I messaged him to say come over, the next thing he's in the studio laying a vocal down. And he said that his relationship with Kaytranada has been strong anyway, because they've done loads of tracks together."