I'm literally tone-deaf with singing. It's unreal.
I am exceedingly lucky that my voice, along with perfect pitch and perfect rhythm, was given me at birth.
I think Jerry Lee is sad. As a musician, he was far more talented than Elvis Presley. Everybody down in Memphis knows that. Elvis became a movie star because he was beautiful. Not that Elvis wasn't talented, but Jerry Lee Lewis was incomprehensibly talented as a musician.
My big brother still thinks he's a better singer than me.
I thought everybody could sing, because everybody in my family could.
I've always been talented, always been able to sing or remember a song after hearing it one time.
I was always good at music.
I've been in love with music since I was old enough to establish my taste.
My first two records are so simply constructed. The reason isn't because I wanted to make simple music. It's because I don't really have the chops.
It's not like we don't have any talent. We can't sing like Whitney Houston, but we can sing well.
I could read music before I could read words.
My dad says I could sing before I could talk, if that's possible. I was always humming and things like that.
God gives different people different gifts, and there are some people that can listen to an instrument and within a fraction of a second tell, you know, where it's off key or what note doesn't resonate correctly.
I've always been that way. I'm not very good at reading music but I'm pretty quick at picking things up.
I don't really admire musicianship per se - as is obvious from my own playing.
I have a good ear for music.
Guitar playing isn't really for everybody.
I remember there was a little organ which I'd tap my fingers on all the time. My interest in the instrument was so obvious, one day I got home from school and there was a real piano in my bedroom.
I have absolutely no musical talent of my own!
I was a lucky kid. You could have got 10 kids to be in The Byrds who were better than I was.
The only thing I was any good at was music.
My big brother Ryan was funny and unfailingly kind. He was one of the most talented musicians you might encounte, and had a prodigious ability to pick up any instrument and play it by ear within the span of a single day.
My parents - Augustine Joseph and Elizabeth - discovered my talent for singing when I was a kid. I remember them telling me that I sang a classical piece after listening to it a couple of times when I was two-and-a-half years old.
I could read music before I could read.
I think some people just have an innate musical ability, and I'm lucky enough to be one of those people.
