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I Don't Feel Like That Many Musicians Are Competitive With Each Other.

If A Relationship Is Going To Work, It Will Require Compromise And, Even Then, It Is Not Always Going To End The Way You Want It To.

I Listen To All Those Kinds Of Music, From Classic Soul To Hip-hop To Brazilian Music To, You Know, Jazz To Indie To Alternative. So Whatever. I Listen To All If It. Classic Rock And Classic Pop, All Of That.

Even If You Can Sing Or Even If You Can Write A Song, It Takes A Lot Of Determination, It Takes Some Kind Of Thick Skin, Because You Got To Persevere Despite The Fact That People Tell You You Shouldn't Do This Or You Shouldn't Do That Or You're Not Good Enough Or Your Style's Too Different. I've Heard All Of That Stuff.

My First Big Break Came With Lauryn Hill On A Track Called Everything Is Everything, I Played Piano On That Track Way Back In 1998.