If I didn't start singing in the cabarets and on my albums, I could have never even tried something like 'Capone.'
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
When I first started singing in Paris, I sounded horrible: I was just singing to get some money to eat. And I wasn't singing my own songs: it was Bob Dylan, Bob Marley, Jimi Hendrix. Eventually, when I wrote my own music, my style just came out of my own place.
I hated singing. I wanted to be an actress. But I don't think I'd have made it any other way.
I found it was really impossible for me to write songs when I couldn't sing.
I used to sing songs from musicals all the time as a kid.
I've never been comfortable as a lead performer, and I never wanted to be a singer, particularly.
Nobody really thought I was going to make it, because I was a musician. I really wasn't a singer.
When I was a preteen, I got into singing, and became really obsessed with it. But then, of course, that didn't work out.
I don't even attempt to sing.
I never tried to sing like anybody else, fortunately I didn't sound like anybody else. It just happened.
I don't think I was considered to be a cabaret singer because I didn't have patter that was written.