But I knew if I ran I'd never be able to sing, so I had to take my punishment.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
There was a time, actually, when I hadn't been singing, and I'd lost a lot of my ability. My range had shrunk.
If you heard me sing, you would just plug your ears and run, screaming, the other way. I promise.
A lot of people would have loved me to keep singing... You come to a point where you have sung, more or less... your whole repertoire and you want to get down to the job of living.
There was a time when I stopped singing, between 16 and 19, but that was done on purpose, maybe as a punishment, maybe as a cure.
As I got older, I got Parkinson's disease, so I couldn't sing at all. That's what happened to me. I was singing at my best strength when I developed Parkinson's. I think I've had it for quite a while.
I just couldn't get anyone to sing my songs, so I had to sing my own tunes.
I never wanted to sing. I just wanted to play rhythm guitar - hide in the back and just play.
I lucked out when I started to sing. I'd already experienced failing at everything else.
Because I was a dancer, I started going to auditions for musical theater, which forced me to sing.
I realised I could run after finding out that my dad used to run and it gave me the morale that if he did it then maybe I could also run.