I had classical training but I don't consider myself an opera singer though.
I don't have dairy because I'm a singer and, quite frankly, I don't want to mess around with my vocal chords and how those behave, and dairy is an allergen for me.
At the end of the day, a playback singer has to depend on live shows as their source of income.
I was always a bit of a showgirl; it was in my blood. I never thought I would have a career as a singer, though.
I'm going to be quite choosy about singing. If I connect to a tune and like what I am offered to sing, I'll do it. I am an actor by profession, not a singer.
There's a lot of maintenance that goes into being a professional singer.
When you decide to become an opera singer, it's a commitment that allows nothing else to interfere. Even your family - and I have a young daughter - has to take second place.
I was a wedding singer as a teenager.
I've never wanted to be famous. That has never been a part of any dream. I do remember being little and thinking I might want to be a singer. But not a famous singer - just, like, a singer.
I'm a romantic singer. That's my nook, my motif.
I'm not going to do anything that will damage my voice because my voice is my career and singing is my passion. I was singing in the cot and I'll still be singing when they're nailing down my coffin.
I felt the weight of the past at the beginning of my career of singer.
I used to sing as a living while I was at university.
If I wanted to be a pop singer, I would have done that 20 years ago. I love country music.
I've sung my whole life. I've taken lots of voice lessons and I love to sing. But I've never really sung professionally at all.
I didn't want to be a soul singer.
When I was 12 and started to take singing lessons from a woman, she told me that I would probably spend the rest of my life taking care of my voice.
I have a voice coach, but only in so much as to make my voice stronger so I can sing for five nights a week, two hours.
I am happy being a playback singer and performer.
I'd like to keep singing - whether that's small or big. To stop singing for a living would break my heart.
Again, I say I will be glad to tell what songs I have ever sung, because singing is my business.
I never thought that I could make a living out of my voice, to be completely honest. I thought that I could probably keep playing pubs. And it was exciting for me to get even just a pub gig in my town or country, when I went to university.
I couldn't just hand in any old rubbish - I can't go on tour and sing something for three years if I don't believe in it.
I believe no other singer has to remember so many different lyrics like I do.
She was twenty and had come to realize that, though she had a voice, she wasn't a singer; that to endure and embrace the life of a singer demands a whole lot more than a voice.
