I learnt from Armstrong on the early recordings that you never sang a song the same way twice.
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If I hear a record once, I usually never listen to it again. I rarely listen to music - unless it's Billie Holiday.
I sang before I acted, but I always wanted to do them simultaneously.
Every record we do, we do one song we didn't write.
I've been writing songs since I was, like, five and I've been singing since, like, I can't remember.
We didn't rehearse or play the songs to death before we recorded them, and that let us catch a freshness and energy level we've never really felt while making records.
It was always important to me that I made a record where I really sang well, and I don't think it's happened yet. There's always a possibility with each album that I might not record again, and I wanted to produce one that I could feel was mine.
People are quite shocked when you remind them that Elvis Presley and Frank Sinatra never wrote a song that they recorded in their lives, as far as I know.
I always sang, I always acted, I always played.
I've never forgotten a single record I cut or a song I wrote.
As a child singer, I never sang a single track for my father or uncle.