Tonight’s mystery artist when talking of embarrassing moments said the worst is to forget the words to a song you wrote while on stage. Can you guess who our Mr. Magoo might be??

Tonight’s artist was addressing a group of middle school students for Cynthia Carbone when he made this confession saying:

“I’m not really nervous about going on stage. I stopped getting nervous. It’s rare now. As far as embarrassing, all kinds of embarrassing things happen. But the best you can do is put those feelings aside, because what makes performances really good is when you erase the barrier between audience and performer. For instance, I don’t know if you can imagine singing a song that you wrote, and getting to the middle of the song and not be able to remember the words, especially in a really climactic emotional moment. You get to this part where everybody knows the song, and you just stop because you’ve forgotten the words…that’s embarrassing! That’s happened to me.”

“But actually, the audience loved it. They thought it was so funny. You can’t do it a lot, but audiences like it when you turn out to be kind of human. You goofed up. If it really made you uptight, that would mean you wanted not to be human, you want to be perfect. It’s better to be imperfect. Then you’re in the same place together. Then to forget something is not a big deal. You have more intimacy.”

No worries for tonight's featured song, the night he was inducted in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame he remembered all the words:)

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