The 60s at the University of California at Santa Barbara weren’t bad.
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Asked in 52 of the 131 consecutive instalments of The Guardian's The Q&A harvested on 2026-08-29.
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When my son Jason King Derulo was born.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 1 October 2022 source ↗
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Before email was invented.
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The studio. I work late.
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Deciding what and who I wanted to be early on in life.
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