“A lyric has to mean something to me, something that has happened to me.”
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I've gone the full spectrum - from gospel to blues to jazz to soul to pop - and the public has accepted what I've done through it all. I think it means I've been doing something right at the right time.
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Music is the greatest communication in the world. Even if people don't understand the language that you're singing in, they still know good music when they hear it.
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A lyric has to mean something to me, something that has happened to me.
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