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I always want to bring emotion across in a straightforward way. I don't want to get histrionic when I'm singing. For me that's just not interesting; it goes too far down one road.

I am a karaoke purist and I don't like that. I don't think it's enough for you to just be there with your friends singing. I think you need to be in front of a crowd of hostile strangers for it to truly count.

I am a pop girl! And I'm on a major label. I enjoy singing pop songs.

I am connected to the market and now I am singing songs that my mother loves as well, it's amazing!

I am getting to the point where the only love worth being in is the love worth singing about.

I am incredibly emotionally aware and connected with other people. You know, when you come see me live, you can see that different kind of connection and that connection with what I'm saying, and the things I'm singing about. So it really is about just keeping my eyes open.

I am not a Ph.D. in economics or a doctorate in literature that I can afford to take my singing lightly. Even if I sing a jingle, I take it as seriously as oxygen.

I am singing a genre of music that people are very protective of. I am being compared to the greatest vocalist of all time.

I am the all-singing, all-dancing crap of this world.... I am the toxic waste by-product of God's creation.

I am usually always singing about the same god damn person so I will love him forever but you know, it's all good. It's all good!

I am working on my nightclub act, definitely want to do more singing.

I approach the singing kind of like with dialect thoughts in my mind. I have to sound like this on certain things to give that Frankie Valli flavor.

I became a tabla-player at the the age of five. However, I should have learned singing also. I mean I know about singing, but I have been never practicing it.

I began dabbling in writing when I was 12, and there was never an official start to singing... I just sang my songs because there was no one else to sing them and no one told me to shut up!

I believe in kindness. Also in mischief. Also in singing, especially when singing is not necessarily prescribed.

I believe in singing. I believe in singing together.

I believe in singing.

I blame it [never taking a break] on my mother. She was a born entertainer. Leave the songwriting, the singing and all that behind, and I still would have found some way to be an entertainer. I would have never been an actress, though, because I realized early in my life, in like sixth grade, I was a terrible actress.

I can change the arrangements on stage while I am playing or singing, doing signs to the musicians to change things because the audience is dancing or singing with us. That's the interesting part of the live show, actually, because everything is possible and everything can change.

I bet Maurice Gibb's heart monitor was singing the tune of Stayin' Alive.

I booked my first studio at like 12 or 13. Somewhere in that season of my life, singing along with the radio became me wanting to be on radio, you know.

I came up in Brooklyn singing doo-wop music from the time I was 13 to the time I was 20. That music served a purpose of keeping a lot of people out of trouble, and also it was a passport from one neighborhood to another.

I cannot imagine a more satisfying calling than my own: beauty, humanity, and history every day, combined with the cathartic joy of singing.

I can never stand in one place on stage for more than a minute and am always singing, dancing and jumping.

I can only sing songs my way. I don't know any other way.

I can play characters who sing, but I don't like singing in a nightclub or something. It's not my metier.

I can read music, but I have no technique, and singing was never an option even though I sang a lot growing up.

I can't even remember the first time I started singing.

I can't say what my greatest strength between acting and singing is...I'll leave that to the critics. Maybe my best strength is performance itself, being with the audience and feeling what they feel, bouncing off of them.

I can't imagine life without singing.

I can't seem to stop singing wherever I am. And what's worse, I can't seem to stop saying things - anything and everything I think and feel.

I could have easily been too afraid to say 'yes' to Chicago, because it requires so much I haven't done before. If I am a flop at singing and dancing, maybe my love for it will carry me through.

I consider myself a method singer, not a method actor. I applied method acting to singing.

I certainly never imagined 80-year-olds singing along, like they were watching Cats. I'm fascinated by that kind of pop cultural zeitgeist that it's attached itself to.

I consider myself as a singer first, but something that really helped me come into my own is that there's not a separation between me singing and me playing the guitar. The two fed off the other.

I definitely don't see myself as much of a singer, because my upbringing is really based around the guitar, learning chord progressions and that sort of thing. So the singing aspect of what I do has been a secondary adventure.

I'd been taking singing lessons and I had taken dance, because I loved to dance, but I had never considered myself a professional at all.

I didn't even know the industry of songwriting existed. I thought everybody sang songs and they were only singing the songs that they wrote. So after I found out about songwriting in college, I was like, "Okay, I want to do that.

I didn't start singing with my eyes open until I was 19 - that's how shy I was!

I did not want vocal groups. I was not interested in singing with a group because there's too much problem with groups in the first place.

I didn't like to be restricted, because when you're in a choir, you have a part to sing and you sing it. I always liked singing on my own.

I did try when I wasn't doing the singing to do as much comedy as I could because I thought with Comic Relief you are duty bound to anyway.

I do catch myself driving around singing tunes, but I don't know if it's necessarily show tunes.

I disliked singing in English and neither liked the story nor the character of Cressida.

I'd like to keep singing - whether that's small or big. To stop singing for a living would break my heart.

I do feel pretty lucky that I'm not so great at playing and singing, it forces me to make sure I've really got something worth presenting because I can't rely on any kind of virtuosity to dazzle people with.

I don't have a terrible singing voice, but I also wouldn't call it 'good.' I can carry a tune.

I don't feel competition at all. I just feel like I want to be the best. In everything that Michael (Jackson) did, he was the best. When he was dancing, when he was singing, he always wanted to be the best, and that's me... He's the guideline.

I don't - I don't like that style, myself. I never did like Elvis's singing, but there was millions that did.

I don't have a Jersey dialect. So when I approached the singing, I approached it the same way as an actor I approach a dialect, just as a singer.