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"We're travelling for about nine-and-a-half months a year."
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"I signed to Def Jam and within two months, I heard that Ja Rule was looking for someone to do a song with."

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"I had been, you know, held in the closet for two months and, you know, abused in all manner of ways. I was very good at doing what I was told."

"Seven and the Ragged Tiger took six months to record and finish."

"You know, that's kind of the thing, I can't freestyle and I used to always wonder why I couldn't, and when I would try once out of every six months, but I was always a great writer!"

"Many of the articles printed over the last few months have ended up painting a picture of me that is more than a little distorted."
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"Can anybody be given a great degree of creativity? No. They can be given the equipment to develop it-if they have it in them in the first place."

"All my musical foundations go back to the age of 3. My family tell me that I used to listen to the old crystal set, then go to the piano and pick out the tune that I just heard."

"I think in certain areas the demand is greater than it has ever been, and my business is better than it's been in 30 years. The music business is so precarious, as you know-you've got to make it while you can make it, and that's exactly what we're doing."

"I think it was Duke Ellington who once said that we're always most pleased with our current record. I mean, you have to assume that you learn from one, and you do something better next time."

"I studied with a blind teacher from about 5 until I was 16, at two different schools. From the age of 12 until 16, I was in a boarding school-which, I believe, at that time was compulsory for blind children."

"Teddy Wilson, I think, said a little while ago that it's much easier to come in and play whatever comes into your mind, without obeying any of the laws of bass line and harmony and so on."

"I haven't written an awful lot recently, but I think I probably will start again very shortly. Being so much on the road, when you have a couple of weeks off, you're likely to avoid sitting at the piano, and taping, and giving yourself more work to do."

"The way it works: The orchestra plays a few selections of its own and I terminate the first part of the programme on piano, usually with a movement from a Mozart concerto."
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