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"I find singing as somebody else very liberating, it just frees me up."
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"You're gonna have to learn to get out there in front of those cameras and hold your head up. Take charge when you're singing."

"You put a song on the record or on tape and you stop singing it. You just don't sit around and sing it anymore unless you're performing. That's kind of sad."

"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."
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"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."

"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 found that I could make people laugh doing people like Shirley Bassey. Fortunately it worked."

"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."

"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."

"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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