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I sang a song at my sister's wedding. My mother forced me into that, too. But that one felt all right.

Mum decided that I could sing a bit, so she put me in a choir, which I hated, and it was just a nightmare. I was a rebellious sort of choirboy.

When I started to sing, my mother would have me engaged to perform at the Women's Christian Temperance Union national or annual meetings. I would hate doing this because I wanted to play baseball or go off skiing.

Basically, my mother couldn't hold a tune and when I was a baby, a rather tactless baby, I would ask her not to sing... you can't get to sleep if someone is singing off key nearby.

I hated singing. I wanted to be an actress. But I don't think I'd have made it any other way.

All my friends went to the Madonna concert when I was in, maybe, the 9th grade, and my mother refused to let me go.

When you're a parent, you sing better. It becomes a pure pleasure, rather than something I have to do.

I didn't sing, but I did play the drums.

Paris Singer had vastly more to do with shaping my character than Mother had; although Mother made innumerable sacrifices for me, and Paris Singer made none. I wanted to be like him.