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AP: Your last album went platinum, selling 1 million units, but most of your records have sold 5 million units each. Do you think about record sales a lot? Groban: I'd be lying if I said that it wasn't important. It's your ticket to make the next record and I want to keep doing what I'm doing. But mostly it's the validation that you've done something that people want to have and own. AP: What was it like working with Rob Cavallo compared with Rick Rubin? Groban: Rob was a great change of pace in a certain way because he likes to work very much based on riding a wave of energy when it's there, which is pretty compatible with how I like to work. ... And whenever I would have doubts (like), "I don't know if this is my wheelhouse" or "I don't know if this is right for my voice," he'd be great at saying, "I don't know if you should sing that" or most of the time saying, "Well, shoot, let's expand what your wheelhouse is." AP: You're building your acting reel. What's that been like? Groban: It's great to let out that other side because the music side is so serious that to be able to have an outlet for your funny bone, for your weird, oddball side is just cathartic for me. And it's actually what I started doing. I was in improv theater before I even started singing, so the fact that the comedy side is starting to work its way around in my world strangely, considering the kind of music I sing, I'll take it. It's wonderful. AP: Do you want to play a serious role? Groban: Yeah, sure. I think I'm probably better at comedy, but comedians take serious roles sometimes and it actually goes really well. ... I'd love to play a bad guy actually. I'd love to dive in and play some kind of French assassin, like "The Professional." ___ Online:
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