Natalie Imbruglia Quotes

I realized that I didn't want to do anything else. Plus, I realized I was good, and, most importantly, I actually loved to sing on stage.

It's something that I've always done. I started singing when I was four years old; that was the first time I took a voice lesson. 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.

Every time I would open my mouth to sing, everybody was paying attention to me. It became a habit.

I always knew I had a voice and I've always known I could sing, but I was too shy to let it come out. I think it's the hardest thing to do, to sing in front of people. When I finally let go and did it, I realized it's what I'm most talented at and what I love to do the most.

I played music and sang from my earliest memories. The first pictures of me show me wandering around with a guitar that was larger than I was, and it became almost second nature to me.

I love to sing. I'm learning guitar right now.

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 playing guitar when I was 14 and eventually gained the confidence to start singing a little bit.

I really - I just wanna sing. And I wanna show people that I can sing.

I feel like I'm playing the washboard more than the guitar.

I know that I'm with the best people I can be, and my arsenal of sounds and songs and tracks is as good as it could possibly be. Don't be in a band unless you feel that.

Once I get onstage the tension explodes and I'm fine. I'm in another world - in a trance almost, doing what I love best, expressing myself through guitar.

It's my singing that allows me to stand apart.

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

I wasn't put on this earth to amass money or personal wealth. I was put on this earth to play guitar and write songs.

The essential thing is to WANT to sing. This then is a song. I am singing.

I love the guitar for its harmony; it is my constant companion in all my travels.

My boyfriend's a musician, and I think when he's on stage is the only time he's not worrying. And so that's the reason he keeps doing it is because it gives him that sort of experience of weightlessness that I only get out of being sort of, deep into writing something or really lost in a moment on set, like it's available to me in these select moments through my work.

The very day I purchased it, I christened my guitar as my monophonic symphony, six string orchestra.

To me a guitar is kind of like a woman. You don't know why you like 'em but you do.

I was not reluctant to become a singer. Singing has been an activity I've done my whole life, without thought.

I miss singing very, very much, but the best thing is I have never been busier.

It is never about how good your voice is; it is only about feeling the urge to sing, and then having the courage to do it with the voice you are given.

I have the best job in the world. I'm able to express myself, and people attach themselves to it if they identify with it. Music certainly is a driving force in my life. There's not a moment where I'm not in it.

Being able to express myself through music and art has always been when I feel the most alive.