i always wanted to be eddie levert.n him for years but i have learned you have something i want more than being on stage. i want to get to the point where i start getting checks i forgot i did. that is a problem i would love to have. i want that problem. >> i look on the list and think when did i write that? when i go over to gerald's house and he would say what do you think about this? i think this line would probably work. i will put you down for 10%. but i did that do anything. i did what a father does. that is what he usually would do. tavis: i know what i think when i hear his music. you hear his stuff now and it comes on the radio. however you hear his music, when you hear him now what do you hear? is it as good as he remembered it? >> it is better than i remember at, gerald did not really know who he really was. because he did not know he was one of the greatest soul singers in the history of r&b music. i think the world has just started realizing it now that he is gone. when you hear him now you really realize h