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Every morning, I'm visited by hummingbirds. I think it's nice, but maybe they're planning an attack?

I always wanted to be known as a songwriter and not just a songbird.

All birds are incipient or would-be songsters in the spring. I find corroborative evidence of this even in the crowing of the cock.

I was bred and raised in a multi-cultural music background.

I'm somebody who's really contributed to culture. Popular culture.

I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.

I feel I am strange to all but the birds of America.

I'm a man that's unique to the world. That's kind of the star I was born under - on the cusp of Capricorn and Aquarius. My mother is Irish-American, and my father is Afro-Panamanian, so it's kind of been the story of my life to be a bridge between different cultures and different styles, and musically, that's between jazz and R&B.

I am one with the popular culture.