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If you are not happy with the song, don't sing it. Simple as that - no-one forces you to do it.

The way I teach people to sing... I have them talk the lyric out until it sounds like something they really believe, like an actor with a monologue.

Since I have been singing for so many years, I don't always need to approach a song quite so laboriously and meticulously.

If I'm going to sing like someone else, then I don't need to sing at all.

I don't feel like singing should be taken lightly. It's one of the hardest things I've ever done, but it's coming along.

It's not that you want to sing, it's that you have to sing.

Sometimes you sing songs about the way you want to feel more than the way you actually do feel.

The musicians recommend that I sing a sing the way it is written the first time and then start to look for other notes that aren't in the melody.

I've read and heard that some of the most inspiring vocal interpreters adhere habitually to one rule: Always think the lyrics as you're singing them, so that the sentiment is always appropriate and heartfelt.

My other advice is to start writing songs and singing right away.