Singing is something I love to do. I feel very confident doing it.
I was in a choir as a kid. It was from those early days that my outlook on harmonies and arrangements were nurtured. I always took that with me, even on the earliest Bad Religion record, which strangely was only about six years after that.
It's the actual recording of the vocal that is the most boring thing you'll ever do in your life.
I don't like karaoke very much. I like being around it, but I don't like singing it. If I had to sing a karaoke song, it's usually "Son of a Preacher Man" by Dusty Springfield.
Since his childhood, Bappa has observed me singing and practicing and is well aware of all sorts of recording and singing arrangements. I have a studio at my home, so whenever he needs my help I make sure I stand by him. I often sing for the tunes that he composes.
I don't have a rock voice. I have to force it. I am like an opera singer.
Lyrics over some nice beats - that's what the people want from us.
I used to be a pop singer; well, not used to be. I am an R&B singer. My emphasis was on Stevie Wonder and Chaka Khan and Aretha Franklin.
I'm literally tone-deaf with singing. It's unreal.
So I'll set a cycle in motion and pop it into record and I'll lay down a drum pattern, a bass line, a keyboard and guitar part, and once the groove is going I launch into the song and sing my song over the top.
From the beginning, I've always had a knack for catchy melodies. But I went through a period when I was trying to be rock n' roll and have a rock n' roll attitude. I was fighting my nature by trying to play really hard and sing really hard. But at a certain point, I realized that I loved syrupy pop music with tons of harmony.
I feel like I can make records where, you know, I can get in the alley and exchange bars with Styles P, but I can also get in the studio and create a classic with Rihanna.
I love Mariah Carey. Remember the breakdown? I loved the breakdown.
When I was in the recording studio, I needed to concentrate on what my voice was doing, which is rather difficult if you can't actually see what you are supposed to be singing.
Singing was a liberating experience for me.
I love the lone human voice. It is my greatest love and passion.
The human voice is the most beautiful instrument of all, but it is the most difficult to play.
I wish Frank Sinatra would just shut up and sing.
Take opera for example - to go to the opera you have to dress up in a tuxedo and pay lots of money.
I'm not a folk-singer. I just sing a certain place.
Making a record is an intimate experience. A good producer can get things out of you that you can't get out of yourself.
I'm trying everything. But voice work is the best thing you ever imagined. It's not about how you look, and you can go to work in your PJs.
I was champion soprano of Sussex when I was 16!
To me, the lyrics of the song define the kind of style it is.
I'm very comfortable singing myself, first of all. Secondly, there's a certain disconnect when you write the song and you have someone else sing it for you. And it's kind of like a fakeness about it.
