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Yeah, I've always sung, and I always try to find a way for music to be in my life.

I've sung other people's music all my life.

I had always sung, as far back as I can remember, for the pure love of it. My voice was contralto, and I sang in a church in Naples from fourteen till I was eighteen.

We went to church every Sunday. When I was a kid, the only time I sang was around my family.

I've always sung. I was really into musical theater when I was growing up. As a kid, I listened to Ella Fitzgerald and Nina Simone, actually, on cassette tapes.

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

I always did sing. It's always been something I love to do but it has also been the most private and most secret thing that you don't really want to let the world in on.

I remember growing up singing; even when I was just three years old, I was singing all the time in the house. My parents said I was singing before I could even talk properly.

My grandmother sang, too, and she was really loud. It was this wild kind of singing. I count her among my influences.

I sang all the time, and finally, my mother looked at me and said: 'I have a friend in New York who gives singing lessons. If she says you can sing, you can take lessons. If you can't sing, I never want you to open your mouth again as long as you live.'