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I grew up doing musical theatre in Orlando, Florida. When I was 14, I just happened to be in the right place at the right time - a deliveryman heard me singing and offered to deliver my demo tape to Sony Music. I was just really lucky.

I grew up in an extremely musical atmosphere. There was a lot of music and singing around. I never really thought about one not singing, as a person. I've always sung and made music, it was just self-understood.

I grew up in a really small town with not a lot of money, and I liked singing, but it was just something that was a hobby.

I grew up listening to cabaret. At 7 and 8 years old, I was already singing like a club performer.

I grew up only singing country. I did listen to like Debbie Gibson and other pop music, but I would only sing country music.

I grew up performing and singing. And acting, the idea of it just sort of fell into my lap. And I was a little hesitant at first, but I was like, okay, I’ll try it.

I grew up singing. My mother was a music teacher.

I grew up sitting beside my grandmother playing the piano and singing.

I guess at a certain point you think, well, singing is singing and acting is acting.

I guess I'm attracted to people who are singing about love or life, and they have a particular passion that I can connect with. There are people I can tell are amazing, but I can't connect for some reason. It doesn't really make sense why you connect with someone or you don't.

I had - after I sang the 'Star Spangled Banner' so badly, after my tragic singing accident, after that, you know, all my stuff kind of, like, really got even more full blown and, you know, I got stage fright and, you know, I couldn't do stand-up anymore and let alone sing and all the other things.

I had a little bit of a vocal strain at a certain period of time that made me lay off the singing, and while I was lying off the singing, I was pursuing the acting.

I had - along with my singing and dancing, I was very happy to be born in the hometown of Dylan Thomas. So the government was financing dramatic groups and amateur dramatics and stuff like that.

I had always sung in my dad's shop. I worked there after school, and I'd be singing along with the top-40 records of the day.

I had a record deal with Sony in the beginning of the 90s, and I was rapping and singing in my band.

I hadn't been exposed to music except in church. They used to have me singing a solo when I was five years old.

I hadn't done any professional singing. I had sung in the shower and in my car and sometimes at a family bonfire if there was enough alcoholized wine.

I had some great mentors as I was coming up and starting to sing so early - I've been singing since I was four.

I had serious performance stage fright. I kept my singing to the confines of my shower and car, while doing the dishes, and in my basement, but I would burst out crying if anyone asked me to sing.

I happen to think singing is hilarious, especially when it pops out at the wrong time.

I hated singing. I wanted to be an actress. But I don't think I'd have made it any other way.

I hate straight singing. I have to change a tune to my own way of doing it. That's all I know.

I hate my voice. I've never been comfortable singing.

I have acting technique; I have singing technique; I don't have a writing technique to fall back on.

I have always adored Mahler, and Mahler was a major influence on the music of the Beatles. John and me used to sit and do the Kindertotenlieder and Wunderhorn for hours, we'd take turns singing and playing the piano. We thought Mahler was gear.

I have always really liked Tom Jones and I can't wait to see him in action. One thing is for sure, I would rather be singing for a living than getting punched on the head.

I have a million nightingales on the branches of my heart singing freedom.

I have been a harmony enthusiast since I was a child, singing in choir and with friends growing up. I always put a ton of harmonies on my demos.

I have been very fortunate to have been able to make a living from what I love to do best - performing and singing for people.

I have fans from different cultures coming up to me saying that they don't understand what I'm singing but that they like the music.

I have felt darkness lead me by the hand Over the hill to greet the singing dawn.

I have left my book, I have left my room, For I heard you singing Through the gloom.

I hear America singing, the varied carols I hear.

I have simply said that there's just a side of me that could not judge anybody singing. It's not who I am. I don't want to be that person.

I have to own something before I can say it, and I have to own it before I can sing it as well, emotionally. I only enjoy acting and singing if I am believing what I am doing.

I heard an Angel singing; When the day was springing, Mercy, Pity, Peace; Is the world's release.

I hear the singing of the lives of women. They clear mystery, the offering, and pride.

I just kind of thought about doing this my whole life. I never doubted myself once. I've always been singing, and I've always wanted to be on tour with a rock band.

I just always wanted to be a singer. My mom said I was even singing in my cot!

I just like to switch things up all the time. Like when it comes to singing, I try to find a different character for each song.

I just love the thrill of performing on stage. I believe that singing is something I was put here to do.

I just love to sing, so like my dad's advice when I was younger - anytime you get a chance to sing, just go out there and do it! I truly just love the actual singing.

I just wanted to perform. I just wanted to perform in whatever capacity, whether it was acting, singing, dancing, comedy - whatever it was, I just loved it and felt at my absolute happiest when I was performing for people.

I just think it's amazing that I'm able to do both singing and surfing.

I keep going back as if I'm looking for something I have lost. Back to the motherland, sisterland, fatherland. Back to the beacon, the breast, the smell and taste of the breeze, and the singing of the rain.

I know that I can sing really loud. It's like having that really big Evinrude engine on the back of your fishing boat. But I've been trying to be more dynamic with my voice and not just singing on ten all of time out of terror.

I knew Queen Elizabeth didn't do any laundry! I knew I wasn't going to be doing laundry. I was going to be singing.

I knocked part of my tooth out with a scrubbing brush on stage whilst singing 'Hard Knock Life' in Annie.

I know I'm known for singing some of those high notes but that's really not what giving someone goose bumps is all about. It's about really trying to find what makes you unique...

I learnt a lot from my Broadway experience, it was one of the most challenging things I will probably ever have to do in my entire life, because it was eight shows a week - live singing with really hard choreography - and the spontaneity, you don't know what's going to happen.