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" As a kid, I wanted to be a musician but also aspired to be Andy Griffith's lawyer character, Ben Matlock. "

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" 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. "

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" I always saw myself as a singer-songwriter, a solo-artist, that's why working with other artists was never satisfying for me. "

" I remember when I first came out as an artist, back in 2004 or 2005, the record label used to take me to all the radio stations and just have me sit in, like, their lunchroom or their conference room, and play for the whole staff. Just to introduce them to me so they would play my records. "

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" I know how it feels to be a singer who wants to get discovered. "

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" When I write, I don't really focus on duets or anything like that or whether I'm going to feature this or that rapper. I just focus on just making a great song and figure out the rest later. "

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