Rihanna has guts and she always seems to be singing from someplace honest, dark and fierce.
I would enjoy doing what cats do: singing, sleeping, and licking my nuts.
That to me was really, certainly, the gateway into discovering John,. . . I feel I found the speaking voice through the singing voice.
I want to be known by people who are knowledgeable about opera, who appreciate bel canto singing, people who have more sensitivity.
The whole basis of my singing is feeling. Unless I feel something, I can't sing.
I wondered how people would take me being a country music singer. I thought about deviating from that and singing other things. But. . . it doesn't really make sense for me to try to be something that I'm not.
I will always try to turn sights and sounds into words. I will always try to shape words into my singing poems.
I certainly never imagined 80-year-olds singing along, like they were watching Cats. I'm fascinated by that kind of pop cultural zeitgeist that it's attached itself to.
I will just think, why am I singing? Then I will know everything I need to know about what I'm feeling.
They always ask me the same questions. Where was I born? When did I start singing? Who have I worked with? I don't understand why they can't just talk to me without all that question bit.
Captive people have a need for song.
Allow me, in conclusion, to congratulate you warmly upon your sexual intercourse, as well as your singing.
I was trying to do something that seemed very natural and easy but which bridged that gulf between the singing voice and the speaking voice.
My wife, Amanda, is terribly good at warping reality. She is like a bowling ball on a rubber sheet, and you find yourself living in her universe, doing things that are completely unexpected or unimaginable for you, but you blink and you're up on a stage singing, or wearing a peculiar wig, or writing a book filled with feelings and emotion, or doing something equally as unlikely.
I would like to be remembered as a man who brought an innovation to popular singing.
What I heard was my whole self saying and singing what it knew: I can.
The essential thing is to WANT to sing. This then is a song. I am singing.
I know I have a very unusual style of playing, where other more recognized and technically proficient players might look at me and wonder what the heck I'm doing. The purpose of my learning to play the way I do was more to accompany my singing. I figured out a style where I'm mentally playing the drums over a simple melody.
I still sing on bits and pieces. Singing's something that I love to do, but it's not something that I pursue as a career.
When I started singing, I couldn't be shut up.