I grew to see my affliction as my gift. When I sang, I soared. I could soar higher than all those hurts aimed at my heart. All I needed was the courage to be me.
Use what talents you possess; the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best.
I've always been the annoying kid who sang.
And this one I wanted to do some covers. So I just really sang some of my favorite songs.
I had something nobody else could do - I sang in a way that separated me - and, when you're trying to get noticed, you play your trump card.
I sang those old gospel songs for my mother, and she said, is that you? And I said, yes, ma'am. And she came over and put her arms around me and said, God's got his hands on you.
Everything I sang sounded awful. So I went outside and I screamed. Everyone pretty much agreed it was awful.
My lady makes me do it. I sang Whitney Houston's "Bodyguard".
She sang as if she was saving the life of every person in the room.
My first term I sang Al Green. . . in my second term, I'm going with Young Jeezy.
He walked by instinct along one white road, on which early birds hopped and sang, and found himself outside a fenced garden. There he saw the sister of Gregory, the girl with the gold-red hair, cutting lilac before breakfast, with the great unconscious gravity of a girl.
I sang in choir as a kid.
I was the dork in high school who sang musical numbers up and down the hallways.
I painted. I wanted to be a painter. I sang.
What I would like my legacy to be is that of a person who took good care of her family and sang some songs that made a difference in some way. I hope I'll be remembered as somebody who was always down to earth and who handled her career and other people with honesty, integrity and class.
I am scared of spiders! And I still get a little afraid every time I have to do something new or have to get out in front of a big crowd. The first time I sang "Swag It Out" live, I was really scared.
My mother raised me in the church. I was not allowed to stay home on Sunday; there was no option. I sang in the choir all the way up until I went to college.
The heart was a weak, changeable thing, bent on nothing but love, and there could be no more fatal mistake than to make it your master. Reason must be in charge. It comforted you for the heart's foolishness, it sang mocking songs about love, derided it as a whim of nature, transient as flowers. So why did she still keep following her heart?
My main influences have always been the classic jazz players who sang, like Louis Armstrong and Nat King Cole and Jack Teagarden.
When I was small I didn't really know what i was doing. I just sang and it came out sounding pretty good. I just do it and it happens.