Jason Derulo on secrets to success: ‘I’m never going to clean my own house’
nypost.comJason Derulo wasn’t always sure when his next meal would be.“I went to bed hungry a lot of nights,” Derulo, 33, told The Post. “But also, that hunger is what drove me.”Years before hitting No.
1 with his debut single “Whatcha Say” in 2009, he was determined to be a pop star and work hard to achieve his dreams. “I think it’s easier to be hungry while you’re hungry,” said Derulo, who was born Jason Desrouleaux. “I think it’s harder to have that hunger when you have a silver spoon.”The singer, actor and entrepreneur shares his secrets to success in the new book “Sing Your Name Out Loud: 15 Rules for Living Your Dream” (HarperOne), out Tuesday.
Part self-help tome and part memoir, it’s a personal manifesto of the life-changing lessons that took him from the streets of Miami to the hitmaking heights of “Wiggle,” “Talk Dirty” and “Savage Love.”For Derulo, it all started with dreaming big — and saying it out loud.
Even when his mother would tell him to clean his room as a kid so he wouldn’t grow up to have a messy home, he was already manifesting a rich-and-famous future in music.“I said, dead serious, ‘I’m never going to clean my own house.
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