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" Success and the art of making music are two different things for me. "

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" Songwriting is something I really need to work on. I don't have very many songs but I really love it. I would love to be a great song writer some day. "

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" God bless Ray Charles. It was such an honor to meet him and sing with him and actually just to watch him sing from just two feet away. "

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