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I listen to a lot of songs, and they aren't talking about anything. I don't connect with them. I'll listen to something like Musiq Soulchild's 'Just Friends,' and I'm like, 'Wow, I really feel what he's talking about.' That's how I want people to feel about my music.
Singing is the love of my life, but I was ready to give it all up because I couldn't handle people talking about how fat I was.
I don't even like to talk about it. I hated being a number and not merely because I was a very small one. I let them bellow at me for just as long as it took me to find enough pluck to bellow back at them.
I'm like any other composer. If you give me five years to write a symphony, I'm still going to be asking for more time two days before it's due.
The thing I miss about L.A. is time. I feel like I had much more time there, partly because no one is ever really doing anything.
I feel like, sometimes, people, because of the amount of media, because of the amount of attention, people seem to think I have to do things. Like, I have to win right now! But I don't feel like that.
My little scam in April '85 went like this: Give me $50,000; here's some names of some people we've recruited.
Acting lessons teach you to really listen to what the other person is saying because in acting it's all about responding to the lines.
Whenever I perform, people get me because I'm talking about things that people can identify with and relate to. I'm not just up there doing jokey, jokey, joke.
