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It was what I did after school. I'd learn a song in choir that day and I'd sing it, all the parts.

I've sung in the shower for years.

Other people sing in the shower, but I don't.

But actually just yesterday we raised the key of one of my songs two steps up, so my voice is obviously responding. It's a muscle, and the more you use it, the more you use it right, the more you should get out of it. So yes, I sing.

When I was in the recording studio, I needed to concentrate on what my voice was doing, which is rather difficult if you can't actually see what you are supposed to be singing.

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

I've always been singing. Since day one. I started doing musical theater and you have to sing in musical theater and so that's where I got most of my training. So singing on stage, you just inevitably, when you're around other vocal artists, you get better at singing.

I play piano every day.

I sing in full voice in the car and have a tendency to harmonize badly.

I love hard singing.

I have not practiced how to be a singer without an instrument.

I've taken singing lessons since I was young, just to work on technique.

Now I'm more sure and I feel myself more comfortable singing.

I really do think everybody can sing.

It's very much like opera singers. They do the same thing. The first thing in the morning and the last thing at night, the thing they think about is their voice and how to take care of it.

I was singing about six notes higher than I had to, in a range that kept me up in a bubblegum sound.

I was always singing around my house, and my parents thought they should put me into voice lessons just for fun.

When I was about forty-three years of age, I had a private secretary with a beautiful baritone voice. I told him I would give anything in the world if I could only carry a tune. He laughed and said, 'Anybody who has a voice and perseverance can sing.'

I sang opera, I sang show tunes. I got into a rock band for a while. I've sung a lot of different things.

I love singing. I love singing at home.

I started taking vocal lessons, I always loved the challenge of playing my instrument and trying to sing.

For me, bel canto is medicine for the voice.

I've been singing since I was a kid, but I take my voice a lot more personally than my acting. I feel a lot more personal criticism when somebody tells you that you don't have a good voice.

I enjoy singing soulful melodies because they add that extra zing to your performance.

Singing is one of the most important components to me. That's kinda how it all started.