What do you think would’ve been a different about you? SCOTT: So you were taught to speak your mind and not be afraid and that helped you focus on being an artist and who isn’t afraid to do something different in music, which is what you’ve done.
Different ways of managing your money in the beginning and, just uh, and I think I had a really wholesome, kind of like an organic experience. You don’t have to take a band out for your first tour. MICHELE: (Laughs.)There’s a whole bunch of stuff I wish I knew like don’t spend the first check you get on a Mercedes Benz. SCOTT: Is there anything you wish you had known? So, that was kind of like a scary journey, being so vulnerable, because I was so honest from the very beginning. I wrote everything that everybody heard, so it wasn’t a kind of thing where I had a chance to say, “What are people going to think about this?” Because it was all from the bottom of my heart, it was all from me, so I just put myself out there. But, I don’t know if I was prepared for, what was ahead because I was so, so honest and myself with everything I did. MICHELE: I think everything that happens in life we’re prepared for in ways we really don’t really know. Meeting all the wonderful, new people and people appreciating my new music has been really, fun and blessed ride. And it’s been a really, really fun, fun ride. It was more like, this is going to be fun, let’s see what happens. At that moment I said to LA Reid, “You’re sure?” He was like, “Yeah, this is going to be great1” and I was like, “Okay! Let’s go for the ride.” So I’m not really sure what my expectations were as far as thinking what people think somebody’s expectations might have been getting signed. I got signed with an afro and a Bob Marley track jacket on. I tell people this story all the time because it’s kind of funny. Has it been all you hoped for becoming a recording artist? SCOTT: In 2007, your first CD received incredible reviews.