Antonia Thomas Quotes

I have felt for a long time that I want to return back to being a singer-songwriter for a period of time. I will go back to Broadway. But I want to make the right choices about why to go back and when I am ready to go back.

I've been doing musical theater since I was a kid. And look for a CD from me in the future. I want to write all the songs!

I want to express myself in a different way. I have a performing inclination.

I'd say that, first and foremost, I'm a performer; I started performing when I was four years old, and being on stage from a young age set me up.

I have been taking voice and singing lessons since age 10 and originally got into it because I was really interested in musical theater. After writing my first couple of songs and performing at age 14, I knew that I really wanted to be a singer.

I'd always put on little shows at home, but when I was 11, I did a community event in Woodford, where anyone could go. You had three days of vocal training and performed your song at the end. I sang 'I Say a Little Prayer.' It's a tough song to sing but they gave me the confidence to go for it and belt it out.

I have got the best of both worlds; growing up in Edinburgh and now living outside Glasgow.

I've always known, before I had a record deal, that the thing is to go out and put on the show. I've been doing that from day one.

I always knew I wanted to be a performer.

I want to be a recording artist for my whole entire life. But Broadway is something I would come back to at any given moment. I love, love, love doing theater.

I wouldn't mind doing Broadway, but I am definitely trying to get a album out there first.

I'd always put on little shows at home, but when I was 11, I did a community event in Woodford, where anyone could go. You had three days of vocal training and performed your song at the end.

I wanted to be Whitney Houston at first, and when I started taking voice lessons, my voice teacher kind of geared me more towards opera.

I grew up at the piano, and I longed to write musicals.

It's nice to establish yourself as an actor first and a singer second. Proof is such a tremendous piece of work, and I'm incredibly lucky to be a part of it. I'm sure that the musicals will happen in the future, though.

When I started out, I wanted to be Billy Joel. The plan was to be a singer-songwriter of that ilk, and, then, I got waylaid - that's probably an unfair way to say it - from being a rock star by the musical theatre stuff, which I love doing.

I started performing opera when I was 10 years old. I didn't perform as Zola Jesus until I was probably 18.

If someone tied me down and made me answer the question, singer, actress, clothing designer, I most likely - it could change on any given day, but mostly likely I would lean towards singing. It's where I feel most like myself - on stage singing.

But I think it is more difficult to do a career as a lieder singer, and there have been less lieder singers.

I'm hoping to do more with my music. I did the stage musical 'Spring Awakening' recently and it reignited the love I have for singing.

When I was just coming up, I always wanted to be able to perform to a large crowd with a symphony.

Ever since I can remember, I've always wanted to be a performer - whether it was acting or singing or whatever.

Then I trained as an opera singer for four years before I started singing professionally as a pop act.

Both my mother and my grandmother aspired to be opera singers. And they studied it.

I started publicly singing when I was eight. Singing was always what I did. I never really acted.