,load, after all he had gone through, the instrument that god blessed him with, that voice, that falsetto, he still had it. after all these years, how is the voice? >> well, my voice has changed, but it's still the same. i can still hit the same notes that i've hit -- i hit way back when. if anybody has seen me in concert you know that i still blaze them, i still knock them out. that's what i do best. i perform. that's what god's gift to me people live and direct and give it to you, you know, raw. my voice holds up really good in the studio, actually. i'm able to at least do a song a day. but on stage, it's totally different. i get a different energy from somewhere else. i believe it's the crowd. the crowd gives me so much that the only thing i can do is pour out everything that i am, everything that i'm about, and all i'm about is entertainment. i love entertaining people. and it's just me. tavis: you were, for that space of time, you were -- and i take this seriously, you were the king of r&b for that space in time. >> thank you. tavis: you were blazing it so hard and so hot. >> see, he