In a shocking and depressing new interview, Michael Bolton reveals if he had to do it all over again — he might not pick show business, RumorFix is reporting.
The man with the Grammy award winning soulful voice and chart topping music opened up to XM 166 radio host Brett Winterble recently.
Although he is a superstar now, the path to follow his dreams has hardly been easy. When asked if he would do it again he replied, “I don’t think so.”
The author of The Soul of it All continued, “I won’t say no because the only passion I know is the same one that drove me those 18 years. I didn’t have quit in my vocabulary.”
Michael also opened up about his personal struggles to support his family. He was 13 years old when he started writing music, and he was signed by the time he was 16 years old, but didn’t have his first hit album until he was 34.
At one point, he said, he was a step away from being homeless.
“I would have friends calling me saying, ‘I don’t know if your signed or not but I just opened up a production company with a recording studio here is you want to use it.’ That’s the kind of call that would come out of the blue during some really dire, dark, how am I getting the money
to pay for food for my girls [times] and I got an angry landlord who had a couple of checks bounce and wants his side of the house. We didn’t use the term ‘homeless’ back then, but we were about an inch away from being homeless. So you don’t forget that.”
However he always kept a positive outlook. “I wasn’t thinking of giving up because I was always focused on the next songs I was going to write.”
It was Michael’s friends and family who encouraged him to start recording his music and helped him along the way. A school friend helped him scrap together a demo.
“I would be walking to school and I would be the only one singing and they seemed like they wanted me to be their radio as we walked to school. I realize looking back that I just loved to sing.”
Well we sure are happy you stuck to what you loved to do!
