Robin Thicke Talks Pregnancy Rumors, Jersey Shore, March Madness + How Cops Handled the Trayvon Martin Case

March 22, 2012 by thejasminebrand in Latest News with 3 Comments

This week, we caught up with R&B/Soul singer, Robin Thicke, at Washington, D.C.’s Park at Fourteenth. In addition to performing (see videos below), Thicke chatted with us about his current album, Paula Patton‘s ovaries, March Madness, his Whitney Houston tribute, and Trayvon Martin’s case.

On the significance of ‘Exhale (shoop, shoop)’ as his tribute song for Whitney Houston:

“It was the lyrics: ‘sometimes we fall… everyone falls down sometime… sometimes it’s right, sometimes it wrong,’ those kinds of lyrics. I was going through a lot years ago when that song really connected with me, when I felt like I was falling down and having to pick myself back up. Then after Whitney passed I remembered how it doesn’t matter even if you’re Whitney Houston, we’re all here and trying to make it through every day. She made it through better than most of us ever will and she inspired the rest of us more than most of us ever will. So I wanted to pay tribute to her inspiration.”

On the biggest lesson that fatherhood has taught him, thus far:

“I’ve learned what true patience is. He doesn’t care about how much money you make. He don’t care about your new song. He don’t care about your videos. None of that. All he wants to do is just bring daddy over and show him his new drawing or ‘Daddy watch this new move I got.’ So he makes me actually enjoy life again in the way we did when we were children.”

On rumors that Paula Patton is currently pregnant:

“Never! Never again! We will never have another child.”

On the current single that he’s promoting:

“I just released the video for “Pretty Lil’ Heart,” the song with Lil’ Wayne, and the next song is “All Tied Up.”

On why he chose to do the new ABC Show, ‘Duets’:

“I really wanted the opportunity to have more people hear my music. I give my life, my heart, and soul to my music and all of my passion in life besides my family is in my music. I figured that this was an opportunity to stretch out to a whole new audience and to just let them get to know me and maybe they’ll go buy some of the albums and get to know my music, which is what it’s all about.”

On his favorite reality TV show and March Madness:

“I like everything a little bit and I hate everything simultaneously. I don’t watch the Housewives because I’m not a housewife and I can’t relate as well. I like ‘Jersey Shore’ and that’s pretty much about it. I’m a big basketball man. I play. I loved Syracuse since I was a kid but they lost Melo so it looks like Kentucky is the strongest team right now. But my boy is from Michigan so I’m going to be partially rooting for Michigan State.”

On how law enforcement has handled the Trayvon Martin case:

“I mean what opinion can you have except that some police are great and the other one’s don’t give a damn about serving and protecting? I don’t know who’s who but I met a few of both. Some cops think that they can do what ever they want. I don’t know enough about the investigation or the situation but I know that cops need to try hard to do the right thing at all times.”

On what he wants his legacy to be:

“I would like my legacy to some day be remembered in the sense of what Bob Marley, Marvin Gaye or John Lennon were about, which is making music that spreads love, created love and helped love. That’s what I would like to be a part of someday.”

Here’s some candid footage of his performance:

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Here’s the audio of the interview, which is difficult to hear, because we were backstage at the venue:

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