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A lot of the music that you listen to now is because of the things that the Meters did, the Neville Brothers did, and they're there, the guys who invented those beats that the guys sample today. Such an enormous opportunity.
'The Christmas Song, ' by Nat King Cole, is not only a masterful performance to me it just sounds like the holidays. I've never sung it, because Nat's version is so perfect. I gotta leave it alone.
I think a dad has to make his daughter feel that he's genuinely interested in what she's going through.
I'm not trying to be romantic. I think you can tell when people are trying to be sexy onstage. When I was doing 'All the Way, ' I was really thinking about my wife. People don't know my personal experience, but they can tell it's an honest interpretation.