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Was music my talent really? No, I don't think I was particularly talented.

I was an entertainer, ever since I was a kid.

For the amount of talent I had - and I couldn't dance, act, or tell a joke - I enjoyed a tremendous career.

When I was a kid, there was so much talent outside of recorded music.

I don't know if I discovered I had any talent. It was dogged persistence. I had to have the music.

I always have been an entertainer, whether it's been joking or performing for people. And I always thought I had a talent, because I could rap and I could sing, and I did write. And all the other kids were going to college, but I just felt like I had to do this first, and if it didn't work, then I would go to college.

I didn't really have an agenda for my talent. I just wanted to be able to sing.

As I was growing up, I did a lot of talent shows. I won fifteen Sunday nights straight in a series of talent shows in Macon. I showed up the sixteenth night, and they wouldn't let me go on any more. Whatever success I had was through the help of the good Lord.

I was not naturally talented. I didn't sing, dance or act, though working around that minor detail made me inventive.

I was always an entertainer.