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Singing as a full-time job was not something I had given a lot of thought to and I had no clear notion of the money to be made in it.

I grew up singing. My mother was a music teacher.

I always wanted to be a singer, but none of my friends thought I could sing.

It never dawned on me at any particular time of my life that people are paid tremendous money to sing.

I was a kid from Oklahoma who never wanted to be a singer, but was told I could sing. And things snowballed.

I've sung my whole life. I've taken lots of voice lessons and I love to sing. But I've never really sung professionally at all.

I have never done any other job. I have sung in bands since I was 15. I left school completely unqualified. I have no other training.

A lot of people would have loved me to keep singing... You come to a point where you have sung, more or less... your whole repertoire and you want to get down to the job of living.

I started singing about three years ago, I entered a local singing competition called Stratford Idol. The other people in the competition had been taking singing lessons and had vocal coaches. I wasn't taking it too seriously at the time, I would just sing around the house. I was only 12 and I got second place.

I'm a musician at heart, I know I'm not really a singer. I couldn't compete with real singers. But I sing because the public buys it.