I think the hardest thing to overcome is judging yourself and being your own worst critic so to speak.
From Nile Rodgers
Art, well good art at least, takes you to a place you go during the experience of it, and then after you experience it you are different.
Art is something that opens up and enhances your emotions and that's what I like to think I'm doing.
Every record I have done was because I was a person's friend. The only time we did not continue to be friends was if the record did not become a hit. If it did, we became great friends.
It was actually my partner, Bernard Edwards, who helped me develop my sort of funky jazz style.
Nobody under the sun was like Madonna. She was positive and clear and wholly dedicated to achieving everything that she's achieved.
My life was really interesting before 'Chic.'
Trust me, the only real way to understand 'Chic' is in highfalutin terms. Our chord progressions were based on European modal melodies. I made those early 'Chic' records to impress my jazz friends.
I am very rich because of 'Chic' - artistically as well as spiritually. It's been an amazing life.
I'd probably be a super wealthy guy if I had sat around writing songs and getting them placed like everyone else I know. But I write songs about people or after I meet them and they're somewhat biographical - they're fiction but also non-fiction.
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