I started singing when I started talking.
Why in the hell do journalists insist on coming up with a second rate Freudian evaluation on my lyrics when 90% of the time they've transcribed the lyrics incorrectly?
The emotion of a song's lyrics has always been what grabs me deeply.
I get even more nervous singing when everyone's fallen silent, but I really try to communicate the meaning of the lyrics, and there's people there listening to that, and if they're moved by it, then I'm moved as well.
When I was young, I had a beautiful singing voice.
Until I can visualise what the lyrics are about and see the story or whatever, I can't hear the melody.
You cannot enter a studio and just start crooning before the mike. It is essential to understand the mind of the composer, mood of the song, and meter of the tune.
I have been singing since childhood and, over the years, sang songs from different languages from India and across the globe.
The Japanese version comes with a translation, but that's different from the lyrics, so people could look things up and find a translation of their own if they're interested.
I said if a woman sings an aggressive guy's lyric, it can't miss.
I've always loved to sing.
In our hands, even the straightest lyric sounded shady.
I grew up in the '90s and remember the lyrics back then were so abstract and open to interpretation. That always drove me crazy.
Take my verses too serious ya hate me, cause I'm the one to paint a vivid picture, no HD.
I have a talent, I can sing.
I love to sing and I do think that my strength as a singer is... I think I have a voice that is certainly sufficient under most any circumstances... but I think my strength is that I really am an actor and I really do have to own what I am saying.
There are many songs that have become popular and people sing along with it without knowing the meaning of its lyrics.
Looking at the original lyrics [of "A Song For You" ] as I was preparing it, I thought, "Wow! I feel like it was written for me." That's what a great song does. You don't have to do a lot of homework. You can just say the words and it springs to life.
We think we understand a song's lyrics but what makes us believe in them, or not, is the music
A good singer can sing anything.
I think that too many people think too much about my lyrics. I am more a person who works with the sound of a word than with its meaning. Often I just choose the words because of the rhythm not because of the meaning.
Singing really is acting. In a lot of ways, it's much more personal. I love music, and being able to work on that is amazing.
I have been singing for as long as I could talk.
I find it extremely difficult talking about my songs because there's so many different things that can make a song come together.
I just go into the studio, look at the lyrics for the first time when I put them on the piano, and go. If I haven't got it within 40 minutes, I give up. It's never changed, the thrill has never gone, because I don't know what I'm going to get next.
