As I've Gotten Older And The World

As I've Gotten Older And The World Has Gotten Far More Complicated .

I Think Elvis Presley Is A Crooner. Even People Like Eddie Vedder, I Hear Him Sing Some Things And I Go "wow". Seal, That Kind Of Nice Voice, Too.

I Get To Study And I Got To Mimic And What I Basically Did Was I Stole From Every Person That I Could Steal From. I Was An Imitator. That's What I Was. It Was Years Before I Could Take All Of These Things That I Loved About All Of These Different Artists And Put Them Together And Find My Voice.

I Had This Strange Belief, Perhaps Naively, That Somehow, If I Kept Working Hard, And I Kept Doing It With Integrity, That I Would Get My Chance.

As I Look Back, I Understand What [the Record Company] Was Getting At. They Were Trying To Market A Record And Make It As Commercially Acceptable As Possible. It Hurt Me And My Credibility With Critics.