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She danced a jig, she sung a song that took my heart away.

The first one I remember singing on stage was 'Somewhere Out There' from 'An American Tail.' I was around 7, and my choir teacher at school asked me if I would sing it. My parents told me that I needed to move around the stage, so for the entire time I just walked back and forth from side to side while I was singing - there's videotape of it.

The first time I heard 'Jolene,' I was 12 years old, and it was performed by Jack White. I remember watching that video and forgetting it was from a woman's point of view, and forgetting it was a country song, and forgetting it was originally by Dolly Parton.

I can't remember a time when I wasn't singing.

I was a kid, and I remember my mother singing. She was also a radio soap opera actress, but my mother sang.

I never finish a show without singing 'She's Gone.'

Edith Piaf knocked my socks off when I was 8, but I didn't know what she was singing about.

Singing was something I always did. I really don't remember a time when I wasn't singing, even as a little child.

As a young concert-going person, I was never enamoured with celebrities who would walk out to feature in certain songs and then walk off.

Sitting next to Olivia Newton-John, I was like, 'Do not sing one song from Grease.' That's all I was telling my brain at all times: 'Do not sing Hopelessly Devoted. Don't do it.'