Joe Jackson is a great man. The problem that people have with my father is that he tells it like it is. He's just straight up and doesn't beat around the bush. Tough love. ↗
Some people are probably scratching their heads and saying, How did that happen? That's because some of the media didn't give the public the full story. ↗
Getting comments like that from even the young people at the shows who probably aren't singers, the girls who just tell me that I'm an inspiration to them, for one reason or another. ↗
I have no problem going on record with this and probably have gone on record with this before, there aren't that many people who I respect. There just aren't. ↗
If you go into a bar in most places in America and even say the word poetry, you'll probably get beaten up. But poetry is a really strong, beautiful form to me, and a lot of innovation in language comes from poetry. ↗