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My drive is still cool, it's not like how when I first began. I don't think anyone's drive is the same.
Ginuwine
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Ginuwine
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: October 15
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You're your worst critic, and I don't like the way I sound on the mic.
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That's what I try to do, my wife and I, we try to, not shelter them [kids], but still not contribute to the delinquency of a minor.
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I think the legacy I'll leave on music is just an artist that went out here and gave 100%.
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I would like to get nominated for a Grammy, but I don't set out to do that anymore, though, 'cause I never felt like I got my just due in the business, period anyway.
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So that's where it differs for me now, it's the creativity, versus, the raunchiness from back in the days. So I just try to be more creative nowadays.
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I just go in the studio and do what I love to do. People will be people, they'll come and go, they'll like you then not like you, I just try to stay true to myself first and that's what most important because that way when you are successful you can stand up and say look, I did it my way and I did it the way that I wanted to do it.
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There's something about that suit, he'll feel like, 'Whoa,' he'll feel like a different person, and that's what it's about.
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