He didn't want me to become a musician, he wanted me to be a doctor, because he said singing was too hard.
Bruegel has these paintings of people just. . . interacting with each other. And there's this special wink - it's not a celebration of nature, it's people that are mongrels, and half-wits, and they're doing terrible things. I don't know, it just seems like something worth singing about.
I've tried to write songs for other people and it usually requires them singing it and then changing the phrasing. I can put a lot of words in a song, and one of the reasons is, I'm not that good of a singer, so I don't hold a lot of notes.
It could be thousands of people or just two, but I can't hide behind anything when I am singing my own songs.
It's my dream to sing onstage all around the world. France is the land of my birth, but I prefer other countries because the world is very, very big and I'd like to discover different countries - it's my first reason for travelling and singing.
After using four different languages on an album, it's tough to decide which one I'm gonna actually learn to speak. I always study the lyric, make sure I know what I'm singing, and try to get the pronunciation as perfect as possible.
I've had lots of friends who've gone through 'Battlefield' situations in their relationships, so when I was singing the song I put myself in their position and tried to imagine what they were going through. I got so, so into it and I think you can tell.
Whenever somebody tells me they want me to stop singing, I'm gone.
Now my music is kind of pop-rock, right? If I'm 25 and singing still, I don't want to be singing music like that.
Now that I'm out and I'm shouting in doorways Freed from a love more like murder I should be singing but in liberation Feel like a ship with no rudder.
I feel like it's me singing back to myself as a younger person and saying have confidence in being a bit different.
I've been singing since I was 8 years old and working in clubs since I was 14. I've been working full time since I was 16.
I've had singing lessons and plan to show off.
Strumming my pain with his fingers, singing my life with his words, killing me softly with his song.
Singing is something I've always loved - I'm not sure what I would do without it!
Even though I don't sing any more, singing was my first education in the arts, and it's clear to me that my training as a musician also shaped me as a writer.
Singing is good for the soul. It's the first thing I do every morning, after my blessings and my grace. I put music on and I sing.
God bless him, I mean a lot of times you get non-actors on a set and they get really self-conscious, especially when doing something crazy like singing along with Phil Collins. They get sort of reserved and self-conscious. Mike [Tyson] completely trusted Todd [Phillips] and totally put everything into it.
What singing means to me, I never did consider myself a singer, I just let people watch me feel music and how it comes through me. I've worked on it and practiced a lot. I mean, music, I dance to it, and singing is just one way of getting it out of me.
I believe in kindness. Also in mischief. Also in singing, especially when singing is not necessarily prescribed.