Usually, I just do what I want, because I got it that way.
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I was born with a natural gift. My mother recognized the talent.
Prince presented us at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
I talk by playing, not by words.
People like my voice and say I can sing, but I don't like microphones in front of my face: it distracts me.
Providence School of Art students used to sneak into P Funk concerts.
Woo means the ability to entice someone or something to get what you want. My first solo album was called: All the Woo of the Universe, which was titled by George Clinton.
I don't listen to a lot of radio today. It's not really music to me.
My mother wanted me to be a concert pianist.
I was born in Long Branch, New Jersey, and no one had ever taught anybody that young, back in those days.
I was known around the college for jamming in the lounge.
The radios are going to dictate. That's another fight. That's another story there. I wish they just let it be.
You can be enticed by food, wooed by food, sex, money, or instruments.
As far as arrangements after the basic track is cut, if I'm writing a horn arrangement or playing strings, I might arrange that, plan that out. Other times, I'll just sit and roll tape.
We used to have a main female vocalist. But she had a baby. Now we do the singing ourselves.
I got private lessons in keyboard at Julliard, before New England Conservatory of Music in Boston.
