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"My own singing voice is not very good and I don't think that anybody really sings in their own voice."
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"I prefer to sing in the shower 'cause the acoustics are really, really good, I mean, when you're singing against the tile walls then you really hear yourself, hear your voice, you know, throwing itself back at you."
"When I lost the use of my hi-hat and bass drum legs, I became basically a singer. I was a drummer who did a bit of singing, and then I became a singer who did a bit of percussion."
"When I'm singing I try not be a singer with a capital S. I just try to get it out so I feel comfortable with it."
"I don't believe in singing lessons. You can sing or you can't."
"I started out when I was about 12, playing drums. I started singing when I was about 15."
"I spent many years laughing at Harry Secombe's singing until somebody told me that it wasn't a joke."
"I was singing about six notes higher than I had to, in a range that kept me up in a bubblegum sound."
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"I think that if you idealise someone for so long, they can only disappoint and I wouldn't want to be disappointed by those people."
"Mike Leigh encourages you to choose a person that you know to base your character on. You write a whole list of people that you know and you go through that list in great depth with him. And then he chooses one of those people from your list."
"I just find it thrilling, especially when I totally lock in to the person that I am doing and I'm really flying... I suppose I am hiding myself when I sing as these other people."
"I don't think that I want to meet any of the icons. I don't think that anybody can quite live up to your expectations."
"When I think of Marilyn Monroe, and achieving her sound, I think of having a rather large bust. I think of her physically and I am just able to create her sound, because her physicality was so much to do with her sound."
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