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I would love to play Lee in 'True West' and Bobby in 'Company.'

Bobby was one of the few people I had ever known who really wanted to do something for me.

I would love to play Bobby in 'Company.' Also, I would love to play George in 'Sunday.'

Now, when we first started, I would be playing something good and then feel like I wasn't doing the right thing and launch into some idiotic cliche. Luckily for me, Bobby was patient.

One night I went to see Bobby at the Flamingo. Because he was my hero, I would visit him for inspiration.

A biopic would have required hiring an actor, and I always wanted to just let Bobby be Bobby. My thought was it would make it a more universal story to focus on ordinary people rather than this extraordinary man.

Bobby had faith in my ability as a singer.

I was totally involved in Bobby's World from the time we started the idea to sitting with the artists on how he would look, to the script meetings, the music, the lyrics, the songs.

For Bobby and I to sing R&B and sound black was probably the stupidest thing we could do. White radio stations wouldn't play us because they thought we were black. Black stations wouldn't play us because they thought we were white. Any time you break ground, you go against the grain.