- Dream
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Every Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
He knows I rip him off every day. He's the godfather for me. Nobody can say they aren't influenced by what Stevie Wonder has done.
- Game
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't care how small the game. I want to win.
- Mistakes
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- Nov 07, 2020
I keep these songs in my head until I get behind the microphone. I never spend more than 30 or 40 minutes singing the vocal or it will sound mechanical. There are always mistakes, but it's about feeling more than being perfect.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think they can co-exist. You don't have to put one down for another. I've been bitten by the acting bug, and where it takes me, it won't take away from the music.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was a nerd academically. But I was also an athlete and a musician. I never wanted to be shut out of any situation. I think it was that more than anything.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I watch my contemporaries, and they love to live in the studio and I don't. I have a life. I treat it as a 9-to-5. I try to create something new every day, and then I get on with my life.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
Jazz is all about improvisation and it's about the moment in time, doing it this way now, and you'll never do it this way twice. I've studied the masters. Why would I want to play ball after the guys who sit on a bench? I want to play like Michael Jordan.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Lionel Richie told me forget about the critics. But if you come back with hit after hit, you don't have to worry about anything.
- High
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most of the stuff I learned to play, I learned in high school. I had a band in high school, a jazz-fusion thing, and I was the keyboard player. I was interested in how the instruments worked and the theory behind playing with them.
- Chance
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- Nov 07, 2020
The guy comes up to the plate, there's always a chance where he can get a grand slam and everybody forgets about all the times he missed.
- Forget
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- Nov 07, 2020
When it's your chance to step up to the plate, just hit it out of the park, and everybody will forget about everything that came before.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
Whenever I fill out the job description I put 'songwriter', never 'singer' or 'artist.' Singers come and go.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
You can't listen to what people who aren't musical have to say. When Anytime was released, I had bad reviews, and at first I was hurt. Your songs are like your children. You don't want to hear, 'Your kid is ugly.' But I knew the record was good and it would sell.
- Keep Going
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- Nov 07, 2020
I went back and listened to the first three albums I made and tried to figure out what was special about them, why people keep going back to them. I think it was because I didn't know what I was doing. I had no idea if they were going to play it on the radio or anything. All I did was write songs, so that's what I got back to.
- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020
I kinda went back to that period between '88 and '94 where I felt like I was the most creative, without being hindered by powers that be. I was no longer going to try to hinder myself to what I thought was going to be on the radio.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020