A lot of the songs in 'See Jane Sing!' are pulled straight from the kitchen table and my parents harmonizing together.
I want to sing like Aretha Franklin. Before her I wanted the technical ability of Ella Fitzgerald.
I just wanted to write the songs. I never wanted to sing them.
Anything I sing is supposed to be genuine. It's not supposed to be make-believe or I'm making something for the crowd to jump or to hold up their hands.
I like to deal in the reality of life. I'm too old to sing about women and things like that.
I remember him watching me through the crack of a door singing with a hairbrush. I was in front of his mirror. I think he wanted me to sing. He would get me on the table and make me sing sometimes or play the piano. He was very encouraging on that front.
I have had fans make me the big picture collages of the photo books; I have had fans send me birthday cakes... sing to me on my voicemail. I have had fans flash me. I have had older fans give me their bras and underwear onstage.
I think a guy who's had just the right amount of booze can sing the blues a hell of a lot better than a guy who is stone sober.
When you're on tour, you're trying to get the crowd involved and really sing and perform to them. When you're going to write and be in the studio, it's like, 'Now I have to think about me.' That's the mind-set you have to work with.
I've always known that I was born to sing, ever since I was a child.
In no instance is there to be a musical or opera of Inherit the Wind because it doesn't sing. It's an intellectual play.
It comes from the likes of you! Take what you can get! Grab the chances as they come along! Act in hallways! Sing in doorways! Dance in cellars!
John Lennon and Ringo Starr liked my songs. I used to write songs and they heard me sing songs on stage in London.
I was kind of reluctant to sing on the 'Housewives' because there are so many 'Housewives' that are singing that can't really sing. I didn't want to get out there and sing and not be taken seriously.
But what I like to sing mostly is blues and cabaret style.
Most of the songs I sing have that blues feeling in it. They have that sorry feeling. And I don't know what I'm sorry about. I don't.
I'm not a braggart, but when I was a little girl people used to come from all over Hollywood to hear me sing.
I had to go and sing with the musical director of the film, Simon Lee, who is just incredible, and it went great. I sang with him about five things, things we'd worked on. And then I went to sing for Andrew Lloyd Weber.
I would love to sing with Ella Fitzgerald.
It's easy to get people to sing along to cover songs, but when it's your song, it's the coolest.
I think my purpose was just to get out and sing. I love to sing. I wasn't even in it for the - you know, the prize. I was, like, 'Hey, man, I'm going to sing.'
Who cares about the clouds when we're together? Just sing a song and bring the sunny weather.
I used to listen to my dad a lot as a way of trying to be close to him, as well, because my parents were divorced and I didn't spend that much time with him. And I used to put headphones on and listen to my dad talk and sing and I found that quite... bonding with him, in a weird way.
There are a lot of singers who cannot sing to save their lives. We have to accept it, but thank God there is such a thing as live shows. It's only when people are faced with live shows that the world gets to know how good or how bad they are.
There are so many songs that I could not sing the way I wanted to. When such songs come on television or radio, I shut them off or leave the room.
A musical film is my idea of heaven. You can pre-record, you don't have to sing live. Singing live was the bit I hated the most. I never felt like a confident singer.
I like Katy Perry. I mean, what is there not to like?! She's crazy, she's fun and she has some crazy pipes on her. She can sing.
I only record songs that I really like and believe in and can sing with conviction.
This is a fault common to all singers, that among their friends they will never sing when they are asked; unasked, they will never desist.
The one thing I wanted to do more than anything else was sing country music.
I think celebrities have an obligation to the public to not just sing or act.
I do music because I can just pick up my guitar and sing, and completely satisfy, instant gratification. I don't need a script, I don't people, I don't need anything, cameras, I just have myself and my guitar, or keyboard.
I would love to be an amazing singer. I take voice lessons. It's good to have as a dancer - to be able to sing and act, too, because for a Broadway show or musical, you have to be able to do everything.
I can just be a Christian who sings mainstream music instead of having to be a Christian who has to somehow just sing Christian music.
The one thing I've learned in the last ten years is that successful artists don't get paid to write and sing songs, they get paid for the psychological roller coaster they're going to have to ride. That's the hard work.
I cannot tell you how lucky I am: the songs that I sing, I like!
