I wanted to hear the songs in the way that I had written them, which was very basic. All I wanted was drums and another guitar, and I was just going to sing.
When you're all singing together, it brings things together. I know the songs that my grandfather and my father sang.
Love makes me naked; Propinquity's a harsh master; O the songs we hide singing to ourselves!
The most miraculous process is watching a song go from a tiny idea in the middle of the night to something that 55,000 people are singing back to you.
When I was about 3, my grandfather used to give me and my sister a nickel to sit out on the front porch with him and sing songs.
Words to invoke peace & awareness. Words to create freedom and fairness. Words to plant sacred seeds. and sing us back into balance.
When a song came on the radio that I wanted to learn, my mother would quickly write down the lyrics for me. Soon after, I would be singing it.
I sing songs that I have lived or I write them because I have lived them. I think the believability factor is key.
The lights flickered, the pain went away, and her mother was holding her, singing ‘Sleep sweet sleep’. (The Children of Ankh series) Kim Cormack
That awkward moment when you realize someone was actually home the whole time you were singing on the tops of your lungs.
My first performance was in AP Calculus when they forced me up into the front of the classroom and made me sing a song, which was really scary, but it was fun.
I always choose songs that I have an emotional connection to, and I often feel myself getting very emotional when I sing.
I grew up in the New Zealand countryside. We didn't have television until I was 14, so sing-alongs were our only entertainment.
Minimal is the word I'd use to describe how I live and dress, and it's also how I sing. I'm not a big fan of overemoting.
I never, my producer never, we never let myself just sing. We were always trying to get the perfect vocal.
I was never an R&B artist. People coined me one, but that's because, especially if you're in the States, if you're black and you sing, then you're R&B.
It's weird, because the ideas in my songs aren't controversial to me. I feel like I should be able to sing about anything.
Just seeing people appreciate what you do, come out and support it, and sing the songs back, there's not a better feeling in the world.
I think anything emotional adds to your acting and singing, no matter what it is that you go through. It will always add to it, never take away.
You look at someone like Beyonce singing 'Single Ladies,' when we all know she's married. Some of it is just for entertainment.
I'm really scared of clowns, and for a while, I was scared to perform and sing in front of a crowd. Also, I'm not a big scary movie guy. They stay with me for a while.
