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If you take a bunch of superstars and put them in a room where they don't have their assistants and entourage, it's funny to see what happens.
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This illness made it impossible for me to give my best effort to our audience, but now that it's been identified, I'm looking forward to a complete, quick recovery and to get back out there with John as soon as possible.
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I returned to upstate NY where I just laid in bed for days with a fever that just wouldn't go away. After more of this, I grew increasingly sure that this was not simply the flu!
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Chronic Lyme causes arthritis, heart problems, stroke - even death.
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Smokey Robinson is one of my heroes as a singer and songwriter; a major influence on my own music from the very start.
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Everybody who I ever cared about has told me that they like my music: Bob Dylan, Paul McCartney, Al Green, The Spinners, Smokey Robinson. Everybody that matters.
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Traditionally, duos get accused of lots of things.
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I grew up in a very racially integrated place called Pottstown. It was an agricultural / industrial town which has since become a suburb of Philadelphia. I grew up basically in a black neighborhood.
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Yes, I travel in unusual circles. George Osborne and his wife Frances are my cousins.
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I have an English family and I've lived in England for years.
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I wanted to show the world, and myself too, what I can do. I came up in the world of Philadelphia soul, but I'm fluent in a lot of languages musically and I like working with different people from different generations.
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If you work hard and you're good, you can build something for yourself.
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The difference between me and other people in my generation is instead of saying the Internet's killing the record business, I say, 'Who cares about the record business, the Internet is enhancing music.'
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I was a pioneer in MTV and I was there from the very beginning. So I saw how that developed and how loose it was and how much fun it was in its looseness. And I was influenced a lot by that.
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I have to say I have never been comfortable with somebody else telling me what to do - in any way.
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I was just like a 21st century person waiting to be born, and this is the medium that I thrive in. And I feel stronger now than I did any time since I've been a teenager - I mean, musically, creatively.
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Like all soul singers, I grew up singing in church but sometimes I would leave early and sit in the car listening to gospel band, The Blind Boys of Alabama. Hearing their lead singer Clarence made me connect the idea of church and show business and see how I could make a career singing music that stirred the soul.
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I was very inspired by my mother. She was a vocal teacher and sang in a band, and my first memories of her were going out with her on the local circuit.
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I definitely dislike pomposity and artifice. I hope that I'm not that. Once I write a song, it belongs to the world, and the way people perceive it, it's cool.
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If Paul McCartney tells me that so-and-so song is his favorite song, what do I care? What do I care what anybody else says?
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I'm in the trenches; I do the best work I can always do. Having said that, the way that what I do converges with the outside world is fascinating to me. Because it ebbs and flows. People's interest and understanding, it changes all the time.
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Being at college, I think that's the time when you really start searching for things outside yourself.
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The first thing I ever did was play talent shows at the Uptown Theater and the Adelphi Ballroom.
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When I was a kid, I always looked up to people like B.B. King and Ray Charles.
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In the early '70s, I started to feel like Philadelphia soul was the black-sheep brother of rock and roll. I decided to try to get away from it.
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All artists have insecurity.
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You don't have to be a good singer any more if you can rap well.
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You don't have to be a good musician if you've got certain computer skills.
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I'm not a big fan of any video, especially my own. In a word, I hated the Hall & Oates videos.
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Nixon was the beginning of people not trusting politics.
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