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"Whenever I fill out the job description I put 'songwriter,' never 'singer' or 'artist.' Singers come and go."
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"As busy as I claim to be, I've still got the greatest job in the world."

"I don't very often think I've done a good job. I don't like the majority of what I do. I shouldn't say I don't like it, but I'm not satisfied with almost everything that I do."
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"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."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"Every little kid that steps on the court or the field has aspirations to go pro. I think being a pro basketball player is the best job. The thing I had to realize was that I can't do every dream that I have."

"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."
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