I had no desire to become a singer until I heard Billie Holiday. The first time I heard her on a record, it was a revelation. She sounded like a woman singing about herself.
Had I lived in Norman and those bands hadn't existed, who knows where I'd be, I might be doing something awful; I might be a doctor, or a physicist or something. Having those kinds of experiences at 12. . . the Chainsaw Kittens had a flamboyant homosexual lead singer, and the Flaming Lips were obviously very weird. I had only listened to the radio before that - things like Willie Nelson - so having people say, "These are the bands around here that you should listen to," I was like "Ok, I guess this is what normal music sounds like. " That definitely changed things.
Even if your job is a professional singer, we still dork out at home.
Having been a singer in a band, back in my youth, music is really important to me.
Rather than becoming the best, I want to become a singer with meaning.
I think I was a singer before I came out of the womb. I also think that the way you live your life, and the choices you make parallel what doors open up for you.
I like singing as much as I like acting, and all through high school I thought I might be a Broadway singer.
It's been important to me to be a good activist, a good thinker, a good musician, a good singer, and a good entertainer. You can't do it all, but I have walked those delicate lines as best I know how.
Like an opera singer, I am able to sing out my song in paint.
Before I was 14, I wanted to be a singer, an actor, or a hockey player. By 15, I knew I was going to be a singer.
I wish I could sing. I don't technically have a terrible voice, but it's certainly not as good as most of my friends. Whenever I hear myself on a record, it just reminds me I'm not a very good singer.
I love it when an aria fits a singer as perfectly as a suit of well-tailored clothes.
I don't understand the music but I certainly understand the girl singer!
It's OK if Tim McGraw goes and does a movie, and it's OK if Justin Timberlake does a movie, but it's not OK for an actor to become a singer. I never understood that.
If you're a good singer, you're going to make anything sound good.
I love, love, love music - have since I was a kid, and I'm still really into music - and I became a singer because I was too stupid to learn how to play an instrument, I guess.
Smokey Robinson is one of my heroes as a singer and songwriter; a major influence on my own music from the very start.
I was never somebody who grew up going, 'I really want to be a singer in a band,' and I never had any ambition toward anything, really.
I've only ever wanted to be a singer; I never wanted to be famous.
A song is a favorite song, not because the singer can hit and hold a high note, but because of the words, their meaning.