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Even if I don't have the money to take vocal lessons, I'll practice in the house by myself singing out loud.

I never got lessons. I took influence from Chet Baker, Ian Dury, and Joe Strummer. I don't hear my voice and think, 'Yeah, that's a banging voice!' It's more about putting the right emotions into the right words and the lyrics than anything else to me.

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.

Speech lessons probably did more for my singing voice - they teach you breathing, resonance.

I was taking singing lessons, and they'd say, 'Your voice is too hoarse. You have to do more exercises.'

My son is in a band, and he's a singer, and his vocals... they're screaming-growling stuff... and he's got a pretty reasonable voice. Yet he practices really hard to get the screaming-growling thing without losing that voice every five minutes. So I'm, like, 'Hats off to you.'

I've taken singing lessons since I was young, just to work on technique.

My mother gave me singing lessons; that was totally painful, because I couldn't do what she wanted to hear. She used to say: there's more there, there's more voice but I just didn't want to give it to her.

I don't believe in singing lessons. You can sing or you can't.

Coaches have told me I can help the team much more if I don't talk, if I don't moan.