In order to get a note out, I have to dig deep, and I mean that on an emotional level. To physically sing, I have to get somewhere deep before I can do it.
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Yes, you've got to sing from the depths of the heart.
Sometimes you sing songs about the way you want to feel more than the way you actually do feel.
Singing intimately is almost like thinking into a microphone, so it helps to have the song buried inside you.
I always want to bring emotion across in a straightforward way. I don't want to get histrionic when I'm singing. For me that's just not interesting; it goes too far down one road.
I don't want anything to get in the way of me and my singing. I want my mind as clear as possible.
Since I have been singing for so many years, I don't always need to approach a song quite so laboriously and meticulously.
Sometimes I write notes that I have difficulty singing.
I'm able to sometimes express things even more articulately on the piano than I am with singing.
Being in music forever, I have good pitch, so I know when I'm singing in or out of tune. But the key to really good singing is just relaxing and thinking about what the song is.
Singing for stage, if you don't hear yourself, that's when you push, and that's when you can hurt your voice sometimes. So if I can hear myself in my ear, it really helps me to find that balance of how loud I needed to be singing.
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