I'm the first has-been star singer ever to sing with the circus. I mean, Presley sang with the circus, but that was before he became a star.
I feel like I'm like a healer in a pop singer's life.
I'm no hillbilly singer.
As a singer, I have won the highest honours in China. Actually I am like the panda: we are both national treasures.
When I was very young I wanted to be a professional horseback rider. Then I wanted to be a pop singer. Then I wanted to be a psychiatrist. Then I wanted to be a movie director.
As a singer, if I'm in a room that is too cold, I kind of freak out, so I actually like the humidity, and I love the heat.
I wasn't cut out to be an opera singer, but it was a nice fantasy for a teenager growing up in Hungary during the Stalinist era.
My idol has been Franco Corelli. But every singer can teach you something.
When I was a kid, I would impersonate anything that I would hear. It's - actually, I attribute that more to why I actually was able to become a musician and a singer.
I think I'm much more of a guitar-songwriter than a singer. I start with chords and then test out melodies rather than improvising over it.
I find that I like what I like. I like a strong melody, I like an inventive structure and I have to like the singer's voice or I have no interest in it.
I want to be the jazz singer.
One doesn't have to scat to be a jazz singer.
I'm not a jazz singer.
The most common misconception about me is that I'm basically a jazz singer.
Dianne Reeves, a famous jazz singer, would be my biggest influence.
I've often cringed when I heard myself described as a jazz singer. I've always thought of myself as a jazz vocalist.
Possibly, I should have been a jazz singer from the beginning.
I've often felt I've been born out of my time, and when I started Fairground Attraction in the 1980s, I wanted to be a 1940s jazz singer.
Jerry Garcia used to take his paints on the road. I don't do that. Either I'm a singer or a painter. I'm not good at multi-tasking.