The morning after my high-school graduation found me up early job hunting. The dream of college I put on the back burner.
There are times in show business when you work so much you think you will pop your cork, and then suddenly you can't find any work.
I was stranded in Disco. I went to dozens of darkened places with enough flashing lights to drive the average person mad. I felt lost in the pulse of sheer panic.
You can't very well live in a castle while your kin is on the poor side of town and barely have enough food. Some want you to get to the top and rely on you making it for them, too.
Lead singers not only do the majority of the work, but their personalities are singled out and taken as the general attitude of the unit.
A song has to become as much a part of you as a tailored suit.
Going on with life, it only gets more and more intense as time goes by - and the challenges only multiply.
I worshipped Berry Gordy for the creative dreams he had made come true.