ROBIN THICKE IS WHAT’S HOT THIS SUMMER: Platinum Artist Opens up in the June/July Issue of Giant Magazine. Check out Robin Thicke this morning on ABC-TV's 'Good Morning America' Email to a friend | Print Friendly New York, NY - Proclaimed by Oprah Winfrey as her "new favorite singer," platinum crooner Robin Thicke graces his first national magazine cover with the June/July 2007 issue of GIANT Magazine. In the highly-anticipated edition, available on newsstands now, the blue eyed soul singer speaks freely about his once waning self-esteem, issues in his marriage to actress Paula Patton, and his fourteen year ride to overnight stardom.
Outlined below are select passages from GIANT Associate Editor Celia San Miguel's exclusive conversation with Thicke entitled: "Soul Brother # 1." "I understand struggle because I've struggled with my own demons, my own ability to love myself. I might have grown up in an aesthetically larger building, but that doesn't mean I haven't felt pain.
That's what the whole (expletive) album is about. It's about a dude who needed to believe in himself when the world said, 'We don't love you.'" "She was having sex scenes with the guy who won Album of the Year (Andre 3000), and I pretty much had no record deal.
She didn't come home during the three months of filming (Idlewild) because she was so focused. I started believing she didn't need me anymore, and when she came home, I started projecting that onto her and pushing her away. That's what 'Complicated' (a song from his album) is about - me saying, 'I wish I could stop thinking I'm not good enough because, otherwise, I won't be able to get this girl back.
" "I was seven years old hearing about how wonderful Jesus is, and I was like, 'I'm special. I'm able to be righteous. How come Jesus gets to be the Son of God and not me?
Why don't I get to be as loved by God as Jesus was? I believe we should all get to be the sons of God." "I started writing this song last night about the guy who did the shooting.
I figured if anybody needed love, it was him. He was reaching out, but nobody listened. And, you know, everyone said he was quiet.
And even though I'm not him, I know what that feels like. There is so much hurt and struggle, so many people who need hope." Since 2006, GIANT Magazine has published covers featuring Beyonce Knowles, Janet Jackson, Pharrell Williams, The Killers, Diddy, Ciara, Jennifer Hudson and Eve.
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ROBIN THICKE IS WHAT’S HOT THIS SUMMER: Platinum Artist Opens up in the June/July Issue of Giant Magazine.
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