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.
Well my music was different in high school; I was singing about love—you know, things I don't care about anymore.
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 grew up performing and singing. And acting, the idea of it just sort of fell into my lap. And I was a little hesitant at first, but I was like, 'Okay, I'll try it.'
There is no earthly reason why a solo string instrument or voice, having the possibility to play or sing pure intonation, should want, or try, to be tempered.
Her heart is played like well worn strings In her eyes the sadness sings Of one who was destined of better things
When I'm singing I feel like I'm talking to someone. I'm in conversation when I perform - either with myself or with whomever is listening.
I didn't know I could sing until I auditioned for 'Les Miserables.' My friend was auditioning, and I wanted to audition too.
In our house, everybody is always dancing around and singing. We have a dance floor outside at our house, a big, huge dance floor that we all dance on.
My brother sings. My brother is a singer-songwriter. His name is Parker Ainsworth. He changed his last name to his middle name.
Singing beautiful melodies is one thing, but to deliver the text so that the people understand it, even in a foreign language, has to be worked at very hard.
In a beautiful morning, walking barefoot to the work through the green fields with the company of the singing birds... and there you shall meet the real happiness!
Our truest response to the irrationality of the world is to paint or sing or write, for only in such response do we find truth.
