Possible Clues:

• Modest response to kudos
• Macy Gray jam that begins, 'Games, changes and fears / When will they go from here? / When will they stop?'
• Modest acknowledgment of praise
• Modest profession
• ''It was nothing''
• Macy Gray hit song
• Macy Gray's first top ten single
• 'That's my aim'
• Words said with a resigned sigh
• 'Just doin' my job...'