But I love to write music. What I would love to do is give some of the songs I write to someone like Taylor Swift because I feel like she could sing them.
I wish I could sing. I love singers, but I am way too shy. Scares the hell out of me.
In terms of men being feminist allies, it's just important to speak from your own place. I'd love to hear men singing about masculinity and the damage it does to them.
I do a so-called trip into myself: I sit down at the piano and the melody might start to evolve from my playing or then I might start to sing it.
The colored folks been singing it and playing it just like I'm doin' now, man, for more years than I know. I got it from them.
The closest I ever came to getting married was just before I started singing. In fact, my first record saved my neck.
I like to write about the things I care about. It's no fun to sing about things you don't like.
I know what my job is: I write the songs, I sing them, I play them on the piano.
It was fun playing a horrible, snotty kid in 'Harry Potter', and then playing Prince Charming where I was also singing and playing guitar, and then playing a completely different character.
I started off singing in church as a child. The sound of voices coming together, that was my first moment of touching something outside of myself.
Whether I sound like Sammy or not is purely coincidence. You have got to hand it to him, he sings his ass off. There is no moss on that stone.
I ended up doing a local AmDram musical when I was nine or so. We had to sing and dance and act. It was probably terrible, but I loved it.
Yet do I marvel at this curious thing: To make a poet black, and bid him sing.
The energy you give off is the energy you receive. I really think that, so I'm always myself - jumping, dancing, singing around, trying to cheer everybody up.
How do I tell people who I am? Not being a writer, the only way is to sing songs that reflect my opinions.
Some guy said to me: Don't you think you're too old to sing rock n' roll? I said: You'd better check with Mick Jagger.
If I could perform on stage with any musical act or performer, it would be Sugar Ray, just to fulfill my childhood dream of singing with Mark McGrath.
When we hear the bird sing, it hears only how to love. (Quand on entend l'oiseau chanter, - Lui n'entend que comment aimer.)
To write lyrics and sing stuff used to be a real chore for me, especially before this 'Diamond Eyes' record. I was spending years making records.
I am not greedy, so I would gladly give a song to someone else to sing if it makes more sense.
Who's judging American Idol? Paula Abdul? Paula Abdul judging a singing contest is like Christopher Reeve judging a dance contest!
