00:00We love a good love story. I love a good love story.
00:03You ain't never heard of it.
00:08Album number two.
00:09Yes, three.
00:10You're calling it 2064.
00:11I know there's a beautiful reason for that.
00:14Yes, so 2064 was, it's a prayer.
00:19So then I, or recently, not recently, we're both married and divorced.
00:24And we promised God and about 853 other people that we would never get married again.
00:31We told each other, I think we shook hands, said, we ain't never getting married.
00:33You know, cool.
00:35And then he proposed to me last year.
00:39And so when he proposed, clearly I felt, I didn't feel like I thought I was going to feel.
00:46Because I was, I don't have to get married.
00:48I don't have to do that again.
00:49I'm good.
00:50And he proposes.
00:51And then I, then there are care bearers and butterflies.
00:55Let me tell you.
00:55And unicorns and sparkles.
00:58Glitter.
01:00So, so the first thing I did after I called as many people as I could, my prayer to God was,
01:06God, I know I said I wouldn't do this again.
01:09But if you would just give me, give me till 2064 with this amazing man, my best friend.
01:15I'll be eight, nine, and he'll be 90.
01:17If you just give me that, I promise I'll stop cussing.
01:20I'll eat vegetables all the time.
01:24I'll stay with you every car.
01:27I'm going to do right.
01:30So, so I only eat ice cream occasionally.
01:33So, the 2064, it's owed to, owed to love and owed to trying it again and not being afraid
01:45to do it again and yield it.
01:47What I learned from it is that I will never limit what God can do by saying what I will
01:53never do.
01:55Because that's what I did.
01:56I'm never going to do that.
01:57I'm never going to do this again.
01:59But I kind of tie, I try to tie God's hands.
02:04We do that when we say we're not going to.
02:07It doesn't work the same way when we say we're going to do something.
02:09I think that it spreads a different kind of light and energy.
02:13We say, I'm never going to do that.
02:15It's different.
02:16It's like, you've got to be careful.
02:18You don't know.
02:19Tell me about, you know, being a classically changed, like, you came from the church and
02:23then you decided to become, you know, more, I hate the word secular, but I guess it is.
02:28I was always secular.
02:29Yeah.
02:30And that's so interesting.
02:31We were somewhere in the way, the young lady that was soft, it was like, this is Avery Sunshine.
02:35She's the gospel singer.
02:37I said, I swear, I don't think I'm a gospel singer.
02:41I sing gospel music.
02:43I've never thought of you with gospel music.
02:45Yeah, I'm not.
02:46I'm not.
02:47But I do.
02:48I played in church for forever.
02:50I am, you know, I'd say I was a church girl before I'd say I was a gospel singer.
02:56But it's been R&B is in my veins.
03:01Gospel music is too.
03:02But I have to say, what I grew up listening to was Patti LaBelle, The Whispers, Mays.
03:09That ain't gospel.
03:10It's a gospel according to R&B for me.
03:16That's why I listen to Michael McDonald.
03:17And I did listen to the Clark Sisters and Walter Hawkins.
03:24But the main, my diet, the diet consisted of R&B.
03:31Some people have called you one of the greatest singers of my generation.
03:34Oh, Jesus.
03:35That is a really, man, lofty, sheesh.
03:44I don't think I am.
03:46I think I'm great at what I do.
03:47Um, and I'm grateful to be God in that way.
03:52I, I will yield to, I know this is me and here, but I will yield to whoever it is that thinks that of me.
04:03I, I will keep, I don't know, I will keep working because I feel like I owe them something.
04:09If they, if they see that in me.
04:10Um, if that means of the things, I, I, I didn't know, I haven't ever been told that.
04:16Um, you can say.
04:19Not that I'm great at you.
04:20You can speak to me.
04:21But it's really interesting when people say that to you, especially when you're a fan of so many amazing singers.
04:29In your mind, what you think is amazing.
04:31I've never thought, I, my voice was special enough to, and it was only because I was comparing my voice to other people.
04:40Um, and I hope, I hope y'all really hear what I'm saying too.
04:44Just, just, we already know the comparison really is the devil.
04:49It can't, it can't be, it can be crippling.
04:52It can keep you from doing the thing.
04:53You're saying, oh, I don't sound like, oh, shoot.
04:55We, we all have different fingerprints for a reason.
04:59And, wait, what, what use would it be for all of us at the same imprint?
05:05Why?
05:05So, keep that in mind in, in your work and in whatever it is that, that, um, whatever your voice sounds like in whatever area of life you are, it is needed.
05:18So, I'm grateful for that and it makes me want to do better.
05:21It makes me want to do more.
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