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God, I'm just a fat bald guy, 60 years old, singing the blues, you know?

I will confess I did none of my own singing. I did all my own costume and makeup, though.

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.

When I sang that song, I felt it was almost as if some force had moved into my body. Things like that have only happened to me singing jazz. It doesn't happen when singing pop. I get so deeply into the music, it feels like I've become someone else.

I really love singing.

Sometimes I write notes that I have difficulty singing.

If your lifeguard duties were as good as your singing, a lot of people would be drowning.

Playing and singing at the same time is pretty cool, but sometimes it's difficult to know when you can just really let go a bit because you've got to get back to bloody microphone and sing some stuff.

My father being in the movie business, I thought being an actor would be great. But when I started singing to people in coffeehouses, you know, singing folk music and then, later, singing songs that I started to write myself, I felt more than an affinity for it.

You can lose people without them dying, and I have, from moving, from traveling. The emotion is real, it just doesn't actually have to do with death. I'm singing about what I know, and it's a song about longing for somebody who's disappeared in your life.

Singing is my life. It has always been my life. It will always be my life.

When I was nine, we'd take a bus to the seaside. Coming back, we'd take turns entertaining, singing songs and the like. I tried some stand-up comedy. I had a captive audience in that bus. Then I realized I wanted to do more than that.

Singing and being truthful to a song... I've developed that skill, and I know how to do that real instinctively, that's all I've been doing for the last 25 years.

You put a song on the record or on tape and you stop singing it. You just don't sit around and sing it anymore unless you're performing. That's kind of sad.

It happens to the best of them. You lay off singing and your throat gets out of practice. No excuses. I blew it.

I decided I was going to give up singing and concentrate on acting, and a result of that, I didn't do another film for two to three years, and I don't blame it on anybody but myself.

Sinatra was the biggest influence on my life, my singing career. And rightly so. I mean he was the best singer ever.

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

I came out singing, the doctor slapped me on the head, and I started singing.

Conducting has more to do with singing and breathing than with piano-playing.