Andra Day Quotes

I have always loved creating and entertaining. It started with music, singing. I grew up in a household filled with music - not pop but old-school stuff, Ella Fitzgerald, Louis Armstrong.

I love music, singing, and playing piano (though I'm not very good). And I adore musical theater.

Music and acting kind of all goes together.

I've found that musical theater is my passion.

I want to be in a musical. I love music, and just to be able to mash the music and the acting together, it would be just incredible.

I love singing! I was a musical theater girl in high school. We were always singing and dancing around, and just doing little community theaters and high school musicals. Then, when I got to NYU, I focused more on drama.

I grew up performing in glee club at my school; I was the ostrich in 'Peter Pan,' and then I was super-involved in church choir and worship leading at my church. So I always loved music and was involved with it, but never really thought it was what I wanted to do until I started writing.

I grew up wanting to entertain.

Dancing and singing are the two things that have stuck with me throughout my life.

I love Broadway musicals, but there's a lot that I want to do.

I was really into theater, really into music a lot.

I am a creative person. I like painting, singing, dancing, etc.

Acting may be how I've made my living, but music has always been my passion.

Singing your own songs is all about individual expression.

Hopefully I'll be successful with the singing, but there are so many other things I want to do, like acting. I'll do them one at a time first!

Truly to sing, that is a different breath.

I feel like I need to sing again.

I like writing songs - I keep saying that one day I'll do something with them, but I haven't yet.

Music - opera particularly - is a process which is endurable or successful only if it is achieved by people who love to collaborate.

I sang and wrote songs when I was 12 years old.

I'll always have acting. But then if I had to choose something else it'd probably be singing or dancing - if I had to. Or maybe, like, designer, like sketching designs.

Both singing and acting are so rewarding that I couldn't pick between the two.

But this is pretty new for me, both songwriting and singing.

Ultimately, when I go back to the stage, I want to be able to do everything. I want to be able to do music and comedy and all that stuff; that's what all this stuff is leading to.

I was into opera as a kid - I'd play 'Carmen' and sing and dance. My mom signed me up for a theater group before preschool, and I never looked back.