I had the choice of songs. I didn't know whether they were English, French, Italian, Russian, Jewish, German or what the hell their nationality was
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With the coming of spring, I am calm again.
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I've gone the full spectrum - from gospel to blues to jazz to soul to pop - and the public has accepted what I've done through it all. I think it means I've been doing something right at the right time.
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