I get even more nervous singing when everyone's fallen silent, but I really try to communicate the meaning of the lyrics, and there's people there listening to that, and if they're moved by it, then I'm moved as well.
I love singing just for my own benefit.
I want to go to college, and I want to keep acting and singing.
I'd been taking singing lessons and I had taken dance, because I loved to dance, but I had never considered myself a professional at all.
Whenever somebody tells me they want me to stop singing, I'm gone.
I'm just singing what I feel in my heart.
I feel so good singing songs that I sang with my father.
To me, singing is basically a form of prayer. I get this great joy when I`m singing - whatever I`m singing. I missed it when I left it.
Music just makes sense to me. I don't ever worry when I'm singing. It's the safest place. I am a bit of worrier.
There's something about singing that I just love. It makes me feel freer than anything in the world.
Singing in Yiddish was a great thrill for me and came about through Joe Papp, the founder of The Public Theater.
I grew up doing musical theatre in Orlando, Florida. When I was 14, I just happened to be in the right place at the right time - a deliveryman heard me singing and offered to deliver my demo tape to Sony Music. I was just really lucky.
If that day comes when I'm done with the acting and singing, I'll just pack it in and go home.
The way I feel about you, it's like I finally understand what Lionel Richie is singing about. I mean, what we have, it's like movie love.
My favorite scene that I ever filmed was singing "Don't Cry For Me Argentina" from the balcony of the Casa Rosada in Argentina [where the real Eva Peron once stood] during Evita. That was amazing. SO real and surreal. Bizarre.
I'm not very good at playing piano, so I usually hit chords with my right hand. And those chords came, and I was just singing a little bit.
If you're 28 and singing about being over the hill, you're pretending. When you're 67 and singing about it, you know what you're talking about.
When I would be on the stage singing, I would see a movie of something that happened, I would be telling the story. I would be describing the story in sound, but my goal would be to make somebody else run their own movie.
After being so bad I could hear the angels singing.
I've gone from singing to millions on a network show one day to singing to four people in a gymnasium in Casper, Wyo., the next.
The prose as such has to be singing the song the story is telling.
Everybody [in The Beatles ] was singing at the same time and the harmonies were great.
Singing really is acting. In a lot of ways, it's much more personal. I love music, and being able to work on that is amazing.
When I'm singing a song, I picture somebody in particular. A lot of it is to a guy.
If anything, I don't have any intention of recording music that's just me playing acoustic guitar singing a song anytime soon.