It happens to the best of them. You lay off singing and your throat gets out of practice. No excuses. I blew it.
I can't relate to skinny, perfectly sculptured, tanned men singing about gold chains and Ferraris because I'm not that way.
I don't think it's about playing and singing, to be honest. That seems like old news, you know? I wasn't thinking about that. I just think that's in my body now. Dancers don't think about their legs moving one way and their arms moving another. Over time, you incorporate that into your instrument.
The trumpet was not a lyrical singing instrument.
For me, you can't be a big fat pig up there, slovenly and singing croaky and whatnot. You have to work.
Playing the violin and singing and whistling are just three different ways of making sound.
My father was very interested in music, and when he and his brothers were young, they had a singing group that used to open for Sam Cooke. There was always music in our house, but there wasn't much art around.
I've always been singing, and acting was just something that happened.
I want to write theater pieces, opera, or some kind of amalgamation where there is singing, music and theater.
I only started singing at about 15, and it came as quite a surprise to my dad.
I never rule anything out. I'm an entertainer. Be it presenting, singing, acting, I just do things I love.
I was the youngest of three kids, and from the age of four, singing was my way of getting attention.
I was in 'Seussical,' and I was in a cage onstage in a purple yarn suit singing backup, and I was like: 'I've had it. I can't do this anymore.' I will say for the record that I did love the show, but I was like: 'I want to do something else. I need a little more.'
I'm able to sometimes express things even more articulately on the piano than I am with singing.
Sometimes, if you begin to sing in a halfhearted mood, you can sing yourself up the ladder. Singing will often make the heart rise.
I'm facing upstage, with my back to the audience, and the spotlight comes up on my back as I start singing.
I started singing in pubs and clubs around Belfast when I was 10. My dad is a musician, and he took me 'round; I impersonated Tina Turner and Shirley Bassey, and the crowd couldn't believe what was coming out of this little girl.
I've always wanted to do a cutesy little song with a guy and girl singing back and forth and thought that Regina Spektor would be kind of cool for that. I love her voice. She's an amazing musician.
I get uncomfortable when people give me presents and watch me open them. I don't have birthday parties, because the idea of a group of people singing and looking at me while I'm blowing out candles gives me hives.
