I'm definitely a guitar player, but it's the last thing I listen to in a song, after the singer and the drums.
When I was in college, being a magician was not the classiest thing to be. It was like being a folk singer before Bob Dylan.
I identify more as a musician than as a singer, because I play piano and percussion, and I engineer and produce everything that I do.
I always saw myself as a singer-songwriter, a solo-artist, that's why working with other artists was never satisfying for me.
Certainly, there are huge, multiplatinum bands whose singers command their audience's attention. Sadly, much of the time they have little to say.
My favorite singer is Lauryn Hill - all time, hands down. She was my biggest inspiration growing up.
Well I'm not much of a singer. But it's been a really nice time to do film, television, theater and have it all happening at once. That wasn't planned but it just happens.
It may take me a long time before I feel 'ready' to tour as a lead singer. I may never be ready... we'll just have to see.
I love singing live, actually. And I'm dying to sing in a role, whether it's in a musical or a biographical film about a singer. It's always been one of my aspirations.
My father was a classical singer of baroque music, and my older sister was in musical theatre, and I thought about doing the same thing but then realised straight acting was for me.
One of the reasons I didn't ever pursue a career - in the music world if you're black or mixed, you need to be able to belt a song or else you're not a singer, you know?
When I do the music, I make the musicians listen to what's happening in the film. That way they treat the dialogue as if it was a singer.
I wanted to be a singer forever. But it's not really my cup of tea. Having the whole world know who you are.
I'm very fond of the Talent series, and also the Crystal Singer trio.
But I have never wanted to be a singer, because the exterior part of a career, I don't like very much.
When I was younger and first started watching MTV I loved watching TRL. I loved watching my favorite singers/bands perform.
A lot of people who were writing when I came through originally as a singer-songwriter have disappeared.
My mother was the first singer I had contact with. She sang constantly to us around the house, in church.
I have been singing for the last 50 years, you know, so I deserve a break. Besides, there are talented singers around who can do justice to their work.
As Buddy Rich, for instance, broke into the business at the age of three, I think it was, on drums, so indeed did I break into the business at the age of four as a singer.
And the thing that I always tried to do with important singers when I met them was to sit down and record everything they knew, give them a first real run-through of their art.
