La'Porsha Renae Quotes

I was 4 years old when I sang in public for the very first time.

I'm a huge karaoke fan. Oh my God. I'm one of those girls who don't give the mic away. It's a problem. I'm a closeted pop star.

My first competition, I guess, singing-wise, I was six years old, and there's a video of it, too. I'm just, like, stick straight. I'm not moving at all, and I'm just singing.

Just the fact that a thousand people in front of me were ready to hear me sing was one of the best feelings I can think of.

I sang for my family. And I think probably the first time I sang and got paid for it, I was about 6 or 7.

The first time I did stand-up was on a dare.

The first time I got onstage was when I was about 5 years old. It was at a church social, and I had a poem to recite.

I had the question asked of me before, 'What do you like better: singing or playing guitar?' If I'm gonna be totally truthful, if that microphone's in my hand, I'm loving it. When the guitar's in my hand, I'm a little nervous, but I'm still loving it.

I started singing when I was three - my mother would teach me some versions of 'Thirupugazh.' And I loved being on stage.

Getting up in front of an audience is my biggest motivation.

I have been dancing for a really long time, but when I get on stage, I forget all about that!

My mom made me watch 'Star Wars' for the first time when I was about 7 years old. When I was younger, I hated action movies and pretty much anything loud. So when she put it on, I covered my ears and ran out of the room.

If my mother was taking pictures, I never wanted her to take the camera off me, ever. When I look at my videos from when I was even just two, I would be playing ballerina.

I would say, maybe from five years on, I sang on stages constantly. That's what I call my natural habitat: It's a place where I feel most like myself and the most confident, the most excited.

I started singing before I started tweeting, actually. It was always a passion... I started singing, and then I got into acting. Singing is something I love to do. I feel very confident doing it.

Like a lot of artists, I started out as a singer in my church choir when I was a child.

I am not worried about playing in front of a big crowd.

My sister was in ballet growing up. I spent almost the entirety of 7 through 12 backstage at Lincoln Center, just running around, waiting for 'The Nutcracker' to end.

Playing in front of a crowd is something you learn. You accept it and then you start to relish it.

I've been singing since I was a little kid, but 'Sierra' was my first time singing on camera, which was definitely intimidating at first.

I was performing in front of mirrors forever. Just jumping around my room at, like, three in the morning when everybody else was sleeping. So when it came time, I was so ready.

I used to sing as a kid, but it was quite squeaky. I think I was about 19 or 20, and we used to go to these jam sessions and open mics. I just got the courage to sing one day. I don't think anyone expected it to sound like that.

When I first spit my first rhyme in public on my school bus, I had an audience.

When I walk out on to the court and everyone is staring, sometimes I wonder how my legs will carry me out there. That's forgotten as soon as I start playing.

When I go on stage and perform, I'm an extreme version of myself.