He didn't want me to become a musician, he wanted me to be a doctor, because he said singing was too hard.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
It was he who impressed, time and again, the necessity of singing as nature intended, and - I remember - he constantly warned, don't let the public know that you work. So I went slowly. I never forced the voice.
If I wasn't singing country music for a living, I was actually going to school to be a doctor.
I really wanted to just be a musician. I didn't want to be anything else, but I was funny and all that.
I had decided that if I was going to be a singer, I had to earn it. I had to learn how to play an instrument.
I only wanted to be a songwriter. I never wanted to be a singer. And I never wanted to be famous.
I did everything I could to not be a musician.
And, you know, I never wanted to be a singer.
When I was at school, most people were planning on going to university and becoming doctors or lawyers. I wanted to be a singer, and I was laughed at. It was tough, but I never let anything stop me.
My parents had chosen the medical profession for me. I even studied a few semesters at St Xavier's College, but at the back of my mind, I always wanted to be a musician like my father.
And he was going to give me a song, because I'm a singer and I wanted to sing in everything.