Pastoral Resources

I recorded harp first or singing first. I recorded it all together. Part of the reason is that I don't know how to play the songs without also singing. I forget how they progress. I don't think that any of them are verse, chorus, verse, and so on. They are not simple.

Nothing I have done professionally will top the feeling I got when singing with John Farnham at the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney.

Singing is the love of my life, but I was ready to give it all up because I couldn't handle people talking about how fat I was.

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

But this is pretty new for me, both songwriting and singing.

When I'm up on stage, I don't think about anything except the song I'm singing. Anyway, the majority of my audience is female, and I can't think that many of them want to see me a French maid outfit somehow!

Singing has always seemed to me the most perfect means of expression. It is so spontaneous. And after singing, I think the violin. Since I cannot sing, I paint.

I think that one of Elvis' charms was that he could sing almost any kind of music. I am sure that in his heart, which I don't know what was there, but just from his singing I could feel that he was very partial to gospel music.

I will be singing primarily all the songs from the musicals that I have been in from over the years.

I'm very conscious of developing my singing, technically and stylistically. I want it to become more individual, express more of me. That's my goal. These songs are steps along that way.

Singing is a way of escaping. It's another world. I'm no longer on earth.

I miss my singing career very much.

I like to sing ballads the way Eddie Fisher does and the way Perry Como does. But the way I'm singing now is what makes the money.

The colored folks been singing it and playing it just like I'm doin' now, man, for more years than I know. I got it from them.

The closest I ever came to getting married was just before I started singing. In fact, my first record saved my neck.

People ask me where I got my singing style. I didn't copy my style from anybody.

Mostly singing was cathartic, writing was cathartic, therapeutic. I don't think I had a goal, particularly, to sing or put it out there for anybody.

I remember him watching me through the crack of a door singing with a hairbrush. I was in front of his mirror. I think he wanted me to sing. He would get me on the table and make me sing sometimes or play the piano. He was very encouraging on that front.

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!

A black man singing about a blond girl was potential trouble.