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When I Create Music, The Feeling That You Get... I Get First. You [the Listener] Have A Delayed Experience With The Feeling I Initially Get When I Have A Creative Insight. Not Just The Voice, But All The Creativity - The Production, The Idea, The Concept, The Music Involved. There Is A High. There Is An Emotional Experience That Happens When Everything Comes Together... I Made Music As Consistently As I Did, Especially Back In The Day, Because It Made Me Feel So Good... When Everything Is On, It's A Wonderful Feeling.

Once You Compromise Yourself In One Way, You Compromise Yourself In Another Way. And You've Just Opened The Door To Compromise, Mediocrity, Settling.

Now The Skies Could Fall Not Even If My Boss Should Call The World It Seems So Very Small 'cause Nothing Even Matters At All

Let Me Be Patient, Let Me Be Kind, Make Me Unselfish, Without Being Blind.

There Are A Lot Of Young Black Girls Who I Meet In My Travels Who Don't Have A Lot Of Self-esteem. So If I Communicate To Them That They're Beautiful, No White Person Should Find Fault In That. It Doesn't Mean That Young White Girls Aren't Beautiful, Because They Are Just As Beautiful.