I'm not a professional entertainer. I'm not Neil Diamond.
My mother was an amateur singer, my father was an amateur drunk.
I've sung my whole life. I've taken lots of voice lessons and I love to sing. But I've never really sung professionally at all.
Put it this way: singing is not my day job.
I can sing, but it isn't something I crave to do professionally.
I don't sing professionally; I sing because people who make my films want me to sing. So, as long as they want me to croon in the film, I will sing.
Before I won 'American Idol,' I'd never been in a professional studio at all. I'm getting more used to it. I'm really weird, though: I sing way better in a crowd of 3,000. It's easier than singing in front of 2.
When you go to karaoke with a professional singer and they really start singing, there's no bigger buzzkill than that.
