MO Quotes

My office doubles as a karaoke den for the neighborhood. There are strobe lights and Rock Band plastic guitars, a disco ball and a fog machine and some other things. I have a really long work day, and you might find me doing karaoke by myself late at night.

And this one I wanted to do some covers. So I just really sang some of my favorite songs.

My favorite song is 'No Air,' a duet I did with Chris Brown. I don't want to sound weird or anything, but I listen to it a lot - it's always on my iPod!

I don't do karaoke. You know how some people don't like massages? They don't like massages; I don't like karaoke.

My head was a condemned church with a ceiling of bats, but I swung from this dark mood to euphoria when I thought about leaving.

These things sneak up on him for no reason, these flashes of irrational happiness. It's probably a vitamin deficiency.

I don't have a Jersey dialect. So when I approached the singing, I approached it the same way as an actor I approach a dialect, just as a singer.

One second he was in my face, making me feel stupid and useless. The next he was like this: hovering, concerned, worried.

I told Bernie Taupin that his best lyrics were for Song For Guy just because it doesn't have any words in it. But there you go... I'm a wind up! But a good Elton song for karaoke is I Guess That's Why They Call It The Blues... "laughing like children, living like lovers, rolling like thunder under the covers..." Everyone can join in!

I am singing a genre of music that people are very protective of. I am being compared to the greatest vocalist of all time.

There's so much more subtlety to this new recording. There's a subtlety in the playing. There's also a subtlety in the way I approached the singing. The band was able to really capture the feeling of the songs and not really trade anything that we had sort of arranged for the live presentation, but the songs just aren't as loud.

I do think of emotions as being on a circular path, so you can feel terrible and terrible and terrible, and then all of a sudden it becomes quite funny.

Sang in tones of deep emotion Songs of love and songs of longing.

You don't have to be doing vocal acrobatics or singing all over the scale to have soul.

I love to sing. I'm definitely not a very good singer, but when I'm in my shower I get down for sure.

We've all been influenced by other people...If Minnie Riperton never existed, would I have even thought of singing in that (upper) register? I doubt it.

At least I'm not playing other people for a change. It's a very odd place to be... I feel I'm an actress who sings a bit.

When you're dressed up as David Bowie, with your eyebrows completely bleached, and you're doing this kind of strange dance with Paul McCartney while singing "Rebel Rebel" in the middle of the Met ball, and Madonna's looking at you . . . I was just thinking, It's become a bit weird.

I started singing rhythmically, and now I'm learning from Otis Redding to push a song instead of just sliding over it

I'm not a folk-singer. I just sing a certain place.

Maybe I should try singing like a man.

When you go to karaoke with a professional singer and they really start singing, there's no bigger buzzkill than that.

I won't sing to you like Chris and Ne-Yo, but I'm fresher than a stick of deo.

A man says a lot of things in summer he doesn't mean in winter.

I try to stay clear of karaoke because it normally involves an excess amount of drinking.