Rain Phoenix Quotes

I just always wanted to be a singer. My mom said I was even singing in my cot!

My parents tell me that I've been singing since I was really young.

I've been singing, literally, since I was born.

I had been singing since I was 3 years old, so my love of singing was always there.

I'd say music runs in my blood. My parents are exceptionally talented singers, so even before I was born, it was a known fact to them that I'd become a singer. Thanks to my genes, I started off at the age of three and since then, music has meant everything to me.

When I was eight, it was clear I was a very good singer.

I've always known that I was born to sing, ever since I was a child.

I could always sing, from a really young age, but my voice was really weird. I used to make my mum turn up the radio every day in our house. She was well into music so I got that from her.

I can remember just learning to walk and trying to dance like Elvis and sing like Elvis, so I was very, very passionate about music at a very young age.

I knew from a young age that I could sing and it was impressed upon me that if I got a classically trained education in voice, it would serve as a foundation for whatever I chose to do.

There are a lot of people who look great but can't sing.

I was singing when I was two years old, and my parents were very supportive, but they weren't musicians themselves.

A great song can make a terrible singer sound good, but a good singer - you put a great song on top of that, you're really in great shape!

I got into the studio when I was thirteen. At the age of twelve I was doing public performances.

I started playing music at a pretty young age.

God gave me a voice to sing with, and when you have that, what other gimmick is there?

My father was the artistic one. At a very young age, my father realised I had a strong voice and made me learn Hindustani vocal. I was five. I have Dad to thank for introducing me to the finer things in life.

As Buddy Rich, for instance, broke into the business at the age of three, I think it was, on drums, so indeed did I break into the business at the age of four as a singer.

I remember growing up singing; even when I was just three years old, I was singing all the time in the house. My parents said I was singing before I could even talk properly.

I can sing, but it isn't something I crave to do professionally.

It was my Mum who got me into singing properly - she knew I had to do something with my voice because she knew I was talented. She was the one who pushed me into joining a choir all those years ago, when I was about 12. I remember she told me to start with the choir and just see where it took me.

I started singing in pubs and clubs around Belfast when I was 10. My dad is a musician, and he took me 'round; I impersonated Tina Turner and Shirley Bassey, and the crowd couldn't believe what was coming out of this little girl.

I had some great mentors as I was coming up and starting to sing so early - I've been singing since I was four.

I started performing music about the age of 16. I lived in Brooklyn, New York, and this thing called the Flatbush Fair comes once a year. That was my first time on stage.

I got a guitar when I was six and, instead of learning other people's songs, started to try to write my own, even at that young age.