D'angelo Could Sing The Phonebook And It

I Mean, My Wife Is Always Like - I Don't Write Lyrics. So I Couldn't, Like, Really Technically Write A Song For Anyone. I Could Write A Very Nice Instrumental. So She Always Sort Of Gives Me A Hard Time Because It's Just Such A Ridiculously Impossible Standard To Live Up To, That Your Step-dad Wrote That Song For Your Mom.

And Sometimes, I'd Be Allowed To Be Hanging Out In The Studio, Which I Just Loved Kind Of, Like, Being In The Room With These Big Recording Desks, With All These, Like, Buttons And Knobs And Watching The Guys Use Them.

I Didn't Really Get That Good At Cutting Because I Didn't Have Those Three Years Of Gestating And Nurturing My Skills In The Bedroom. I Was Kind Of, Like, Out And Playing In Clubs After Three Of Four Months, Because I Was Pushy With Promoters. But I Would Just Listen To The Radio - Stretch Armstrong And Red Alert - And Then I Would Go Hang Out With Mayhem, Who Did The Wnyu Hip-hop Show.

I Think That Where It Came From And The Initial Birth Of It - It Did Come Out Of A Jam At Bruno's Studio, You Know? He Was Playing Drums. And Jeff Bhasker, Who Co-produced The Record With Us, Is On Synths, And I Was Playing Bass.

Kids Can Make Fun Of You For Having The Wrong Shoelaces: That's Just Kids. But I Don't Think I Had Any Trouble Making Friends.