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"I find singing as somebody else very liberating, it just frees me up."
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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."
"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."
"You know, your speaking voice comes back, but your singing voice you use in a different way."
"It's nice to finally have a CD out which reflects my songwriting, my singing and the band that I have."
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"I found that I could make people laugh doing people like Shirley Bassey. Fortunately it worked."
"My earliest acting memory is making up a play for my mom and dad called The Lonesome Baby. I have no idea what The Lonesome Baby was about. I just remember the title. But I'm sure it was an epic."
"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."
"Usually, certainly British singers, adopt an American accent when they sing and I think that usually people are thinking of somebody else, but I just think of very specific people."
"My own singing voice is not very good and I don't think that anybody really sings in their own voice."
"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."
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