"I never pretended to have a great voice. It works and I can carry a tune. If you have a good song, that's about all that's required."
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"I think the best exercise that I do is singing for an hour-and-a-half out on the stage, because, yes, I use the lung, the biggest muscle in your body."
"And voices singing out of empty cisterns and exhausted wells."
"When you're all singing together, it brings things together. I know the songs that my grandfather and my father sang."
"Raydiation is more mature, reveals more about me personally and focuses on singing and songs that people can relate to."
"And wouldn't you know he'd be a singing man."
"The religion I have is music. Even the times I have headaches, when I'm singing, I can't feel them. My dad used to say that, too, especially near the end of his life. He would be in pain - a lot of pain - and he said the only time when he didn't feel pain was when he performed and sang."
"When love first tasted the lips of being human, it started singing."
"Nothing I have done professionally will top the feeling I got when singing with John Farnham at the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney."
"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!"
"Initially the fashion world was more interested in me than the music world, which was strange when I first started singing."
"I will confess I did none of my own singing. I did all my own costume and makeup, though."
"I wanted to bring back that big, ballad type of music that we used to love so much. Whitney Houston, Mariah Carey, when they first came out, that's what I grew up singing."
"Hopefully I'll be successful with the singing, but there are so many other things I want to do, like acting. I'll do them one at a time first!"
"It seems to me as a woman's face doesna want flowers; it's almost like a flower itself.... It's like when a man's singing a good tune, you don't want t' hear bells tinkling and interfering wi' the sound."
"I started singing for The Phantom in January, and we started filming in October and I sang all the way through to the next June. In fact, I was singing for about two months before I even knew I had the role."
"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."
"When I sing, I pick out people in the audience and pinpoint on them. So if you feel that I am singing just for you, you may be right!"
"There's the most resistance to an actor singing. It's like I'm being disloyal to my industry."
"Sang in tones of deep emotion Songs of love and songs of longing."