I'm literally tone-deaf with singing. It's unreal.
I am exceedingly lucky that my voice, along with perfect pitch and perfect rhythm, was given me at birth.
I think Jerry Lee is sad. As a musician, he was far more talented than Elvis Presley. Everybody down in Memphis knows that. Elvis became a movie star because he was beautiful. Not that Elvis wasn't talented, but Jerry Lee Lewis was incomprehensibly talented as a musician.
My big brother still thinks he's a better singer than me.
I've always been talented, always been able to sing or remember a song after hearing it one time.
I thought everybody could sing, because everybody in my family could.
It's not like we don't have any talent. We can't sing like Whitney Houston, but we can sing well.
I was always good at music.
My dad says I could sing before I could talk, if that's possible. I was always humming and things like that.
I've been in love with music since I was old enough to establish my taste.
I could read music before I could read words.
My first two records are so simply constructed. The reason isn't because I wanted to make simple music. It's because I don't really have the chops.
God gives different people different gifts, and there are some people that can listen to an instrument and within a fraction of a second tell, you know, where it's off key or what note doesn't resonate correctly.
I've always been that way. I'm not very good at reading music but I'm pretty quick at picking things up.
Guitar playing isn't really for everybody.
I don't really admire musicianship per se - as is obvious from my own playing.
I have a good ear for music.
I've only been blessed with one talent, unfortunately, and that's being able to sing a wee bit.
I remember there was a little organ which I'd tap my fingers on all the time. My interest in the instrument was so obvious, one day I got home from school and there was a real piano in my bedroom.
I have absolutely no musical talent of my own!
My parents - Augustine Joseph and Elizabeth - discovered my talent for singing when I was a kid. I remember them telling me that I sang a classical piece after listening to it a couple of times when I was two-and-a-half years old.
I was a lucky kid. You could have got 10 kids to be in The Byrds who were better than I was.
Guitar playing is just something that came to me and is really second nature now.
I'm not the sort of chap who can sit down and write music. When it comes, I'm happy.
The only thing I was any good at was music.
