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I have never considered myself a prodigy. Others have used that term, but I never bought in to it.

There are lots of different interpretations of the word 'prodigy.' My own is of someone who is talented and tries to help other children. So in that respect I could be called one, although I don't think I'll go off the rails.

Nobody told me I was a child prodigy.

There is no prodigy in our profession. If you see all the great singer of the past, none of them are.

I was, if you like, a successful schoolboy in that I had a degree of talent in all the required things that make you a success at school.

I have always been a singer, a writer, and a musician, not as a prodigy or as in a trade handed to me by my parents, but because of an inner voice or maybe a command from beyond reality as it is usually defined.

I was the kind of kid that had some talents or ability, but it never came out in school.