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I Think That Success Is Having Fun.

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I Think That Success

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I Think That Success Is Having Fun.

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It's Probably The Worst Feeling In The World, When You're Deeply And Madly In Love With A Woman And You Know She's Not Feeling You The Same Way, And You Don't Know Why.

Songwriters, You Have To Work - You Have To Wait For Residuals. You Have To Pray That The Song's Going To Be A Hit. And Then A Year Later, You Might Get A Check.

You Aspire To Be As Great As Michael Jackson Is As An Artist. I Don't Think Any Artist In Pop, Rock Or Hip-hop Has Ever Done It Any Bigger Than Him. You Know What I Mean? He's The Man.

I Can't Even Speak Hawaiian, But If You Go There And Listen To A Hawaiian Song, You Get Captured Because It's So Beautiful, Like The Melody Is Just Gorgeous And You Know Bob Marley Is On The Radio Every Single Day. It's Very Reggae-influenced Down There. Basically, You Haven't Been To Paradise If You Haven't Been To Hawaii.

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Got Chucks On With Saint Laurent; Got Kiss Myself I'm So Pretty.

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People Can Hear My Songs Are Coming From Something Real. I Mean What I Say; I'm Not Just Writing To Impress Critics Or Young Girls, Or Older Girls. The Way I Talk Is The Way I Write A Song.

I Am So Proud And So Happy To Be Filipino.

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What I Like About Elvis Is The Same Thing I Like About James Brown, Michael Jackson, Prince. These Guys, Back In The Day, There Was No Smoke And Mirrors. It Was Just Raw Talent. They Would Step Out Onstage And Command An Audience. Talk About Awesome.

I Guess If I'm A Product, Either You're Chocolate, You're Vanilla Or You're Butterscotch. You Can't Be All Three.

I'm A Big Fan Of Songs Like Joe Cocker's 'you Are So Beautiful' And Eric Clapton's 'wonderful Tonight' - Songs That Go Straight To The Point.

Whether It Be A Reggae Song, Rock Song, A Love Song, The Main Thing Was Just To, Whatever I Was Feeling, To Try To Capture That Emotion.

Music Is Not Math. It's Science. You Keep Mixing The Stuff Up Until It Blows Up On You, Or It Becomes This Incredible Potion.

My Dad Was Just The King Of Finding These Little Spots For Us To Stay That We Should Never Have Been Staying At.

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Doo-wop Is Special Music To Me Because It's So Straightforward And Melody-driven And Captures Emotions.

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No One Sells A Song Better Than The Person That Wrote It.

Oh Every Time I Close My Eyes I See My Name In Shining Lights

I Think Everybody Don't Know What Color I Am. It's Like, "he's Not Black Enough. He's Not White Enough. He's Got A Latin Last Name But He Doesn't Have - He Doesn't Speak Spanish. Who Are We Selling This To? Are You Making Urban Music? Are You Making Pop Music? What Kind Of Music Are You Making?"

Everyone Calls Me Bruno; They Don't Ever Call Me Peter - That Was Just My Government Name.

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