Or if I have my head in the results, I can't work with what I have, because I'm trying to force something to happen. And with singing, any time you force it, you tighten up. If you tighten up, you're screwed, nothing will work.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I must work hard to make my singing above reproach; there must be no faults which hard work would take care of.
When you sing a song the way I sing it, you have to use your whole body. It's almost like working out.
As I got older, I got Parkinson's disease, so I couldn't sing at all. That's what happened to me. I was singing at my best strength when I developed Parkinson's. I think I've had it for quite a while.
Sometimes I write notes that I have difficulty singing.
But actually just yesterday we raised the key of one of my songs two steps up, so my voice is obviously responding. It's a muscle, and the more you use it, the more you use it right, the more you should get out of it. So yes, I sing.
You have to keep fit being a singer - that's part of the job. You can't do it unless you have incredible stamina.
If you are a singer and you lose your voice, you realize that you have other skill sets when that is taken out of the equation.
Singing becomes a form of therapy.
You know, I think you have to sound right singing whatever it is that you sing.
I just sing. You have to use it.