I've been singing properly every day since I was about fifteen or sixteen, and I have never had any problems with my voice, ever. I've had a sore throat here and there, had a cold and sung through it, but that day it just went while I was onstage in Paris during a radio show. It was literally like someone had pulled a curtain over it.
I lost my voice. I'd never had to cancel a show before and I had to walk around with a pad and a pen, writing things down.
You have to be so careful with your voice, especially when you're using it every day.
Dysphonia is not a singing problem. It's a voice box issue in the muscle on the voice, very different from having a nodule on the vocal cords, which I've never had. I'm lucky that I've never had that. It needs a long renewal time, and even today, I am still addressing it.
I've been diagnosed with what's called vocal tension dysphonia. The muscles around my vocal chords kind of constrict my vocal chords from doing what they should do. It's kinda like being a body builder and you have muscles that are so large that they don't allow you to have flexibility, if that makes sense.
People don't realize it, but you've got to take care of it. The vocal cord is the smallest muscle in the body, and it gets more use than any other muscle.
I think that if my voice for some reason changes - because your voice does change - then it's time for me not to sing.
I blew my voice out and the doctor said, don't even talk for a week.
I've had problems with my throat over the years, playing with loud bands for years, and I've had bruised vocal chords and nodules.
I had an explosion on my vocal chord.
When I first started, all the reviews of Cold Chisel would say, 'This singer won't have a voice in six months.'
You can't abuse your voice by yelling and screaming.
I have vocal trouble from time to time associated with sleep or wine! Or from sleeping in a bunk the size of a coffin and breathing in bus air conditioning all day.
The most famous rumor for me is that I had throat cancer. I never had throat cancer... I don't know why that started... The way I sing, probably.
Laughter not time destroyed my voice And put that crack in it, And when the moon's pot-bellied I get a laughing fit.
For my convalescence, I had to exercise my voice only with vowels. It is a medical rule after a long loss of voice.
You know, your voice can only last for so long. It's a muscle and when you get older it sort of fades away.
Over the years my voice has been destroyed from excessive touring... and I love it.
During my New York run, I injured my voice badly. I was getting increasingly hoarse, and it finally gave up. The doctor said I had two choices. Either cancel things, or try my luck and perhaps never speak again. That's not much of a choice.
I don't know if I ever would have developed into a good actor, but that got completely scotched when I lost my vocal cord at 14 in the operation. But writing always - writing plays, writing, writing, writing, that was what I wanted to do.
Many composers today don't know what the human throat is.
