Singing is something I love to do. I feel very confident doing it.
I've never taken vocal lessons. My early trumpet training and a fortunate talent for singing has always been enough for me. In the case of rock singing, I've always felt it was better to remain a bit untrained to maintain your individuality.
Watching Bernadette Peters perform is like an acting class. She's amazing.
I don't have a rock voice. I have to force it. I am like an opera singer.
I'm literally tone-deaf with singing. It's unreal.
Yeah, I'm just blessed to have this very strong thing, my vocals. I'm very healthy in that regard.
When I was in the recording studio, I needed to concentrate on what my voice was doing, which is rather difficult if you can't actually see what you are supposed to be singing.
I love Mariah Carey. Remember the breakdown? I loved the breakdown.
If you love attention and have a pretty decent voice, that's a pretty good combination.
I adored Freddie Mercury and Queen had a hit called Radio Gaga. That's why I love the name. Freddie was unique - one of the biggest personalities in the whole of pop music. He was not only a singer but also a fantastic performer, a man of the theatre and someone who constantly transformed himself. In short: a genius.
You do have to be a bit careful with your voice. It is an instrument.
The human voice is the most beautiful instrument of all, but it is the most difficult to play.
I do one accent - my own. I can make it louder or quieter. That is the sum total of my vocal range. I thought I could do an American accent until I tried it in front of an American - the expression of horror is still burnt onto my retinas.
I'm a performer. We don't retire.
There are so many great singers out there.
I was champion soprano of Sussex when I was 16!
I don't have dairy because I'm a singer and, quite frankly, I don't want to mess around with my vocal chords and how those behave, and dairy is an allergen for me.
It took me five years to learn how to sing.
I was never much of a singer. I was terrible. It's embarrassing: I was trying to sound like everybody else. I went through a big Cure phase, so I was trying to do that kind of dramatic voice.
If you listen to the old Rock I always had one tone of rapping, but now I'm learning how to stretch out my voice and use it in different ways.
I'm a piano player. I never thought of myself as a singer, at all. I was always trying to sound like somebody else. I don't like my own voice, I like Ray Charles, Robert Plant, I like Joe Cocker, Rod Stewart, people that have an edge in their voice.
I've actually, very rarely have I worked in my own voice. I've played, I think, Russian, American, Northern from the North of England. All sorts of different accents I've worked in.
I didn't want to record 'I Think We're Alone Now,' because I thought it wouldn't show that I could actually sing.
I always loved those songs. And with my high tenor, I thought I was pretty good - you know? - almost as good as Dennis Day.
I bark my voice out through a closed throat, pretty much. It's more, perhaps, like a dog in some ways. It does have its limitations, but I'm learning different ways to keep it alive.
