Vocal Evolution Quotes

I don't sing the way I used to, so I'm doing everything I can to put the word out that they shouldn't expect that.

When I was a young man, I was a baritone, very far from possessing the whole range of the tenor then.

I did rap when I was a teenager - started rapping when I was nine, and started singing when I was 20. I kinda sing like a rapper would sing.

I was doing musical theatre 'til I was, like, 17, and then I started realising I could use my voice in a more, like, current way.

My voice has changed dramatically over the years.

The expectation is this low, gravelly voice for John, but I went through his early recordings and there were songs in there where the voice was so different, I wasn't even sure if it was him singing, ... So it was interesting to me that we would see him develop the Man in Black sound. I thought it was really important that his voice change as his persona slowly solidified. The music was really the doorway into the character.

For my own singing, I used to be attracted by the baroque, the flashier the better, but now I prefer a simpler, purer style.

I find singing some of Foreigner's older songs are a little reckless and not exactly who I am now.