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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.

Well, the music industry is littered with actors who belatedly came to singing.

I always tell people that the music industry may be frustrating sometimes, but the singing never gets old. It's something I grew up doing, and I take the bitter with the sweet.

There are a lot of unseen elements to having a successful singing career.

I was never much of a singer. I was terrible. It's embarrassing: I was trying to sound like everybody else. I went through a big Cure phase, so I was trying to do that kind of dramatic voice.

I actually started out on the stage as a singer.

I was successful with mediocre material because of a good recording voice that people really liked at that time.

I learned so many roles so quickly as a young singer, I thought it was time to come back to them and make them better - deeper, more nuanced.

Often you get wonderful singers who maybe aren't as strong as actors, or you get wonderful actors who can't sing very well.

I didn't go through the routine of singing in small clubs and doing open mics and working so hard the way a lot of people do and did. It was just an overnight kind of thing.