I always felt I never chose music, it chose me.
When the night has come and the land is dark and the moon is the only light we see. No, I won’t be afraid, no, I won’t be afraid, just as long as you stand, stand by me.
It doesn’t take me long to write songs.
I don’t care what studio I’m in, I don’t care what producers is producing it and I don’t care what song it is because they taught me those things I feel so protected wherever I go as far as music.
I do like what Alicia Keys and John Legend are doing. With their music, you keep your clothes on.
Those things don’t happen today. I feel sorry for the kids in the industry today. They have on sunglasses, eat caviar in jet planes, but they’ll never know the true feeling that we did.
If there’s anything about the business that I love and that I’m extremely happy about, is that my career started at that time and that I met some of the greatest entertainers at that time and some are still here.
You take a chance to do something and you realize in your heart it’s either going to be the greatest thing that ever happened or the worst thing that ever happened. It won’t be an in between, I almost made a hit. It will be an instant flop or an instant success.
I still perform it in all my shows. I’ll do it as long as I’m breathing. I’m so proud it has stood the test of time.
I still think my whole career was accidental. I didn’t pursue it. I feel like I’m cheating sometimes.