I was very inspired by my mother. She was a vocal teacher and sang in a band, and my first memories of her were going out with her on the local circuit.
I love Massenet – ‘Manon’ had been a wonderful role for me – and the music he wrote for ‘Thais’ is quite enjoyable and not terribly demanding in a vocal sense.
To be fair, I did come out of nowhere. ‘Ghost’ was the first song I ever did in a studio, my first time ever cutting a professional vocal.
I started singing about three years ago, I entered a local singing competition called Stratford Idol. The other people in the competition had been taking singing lessons and had vocal coaches. I wasn’t taking it too seriously at the time, I would just sing around the house. I was only 12 and I got second place.
I’ve always been very vocal about my religion. It’s a big part of who I am.
I do loads of pitch writing as well, where you write a pop song and then pitch it to DJs who can then work with the song, and sometimes they keep your vocal on it. It’s just good to be involved in different things.
I don’t have the slightest idea of how to do vocal exercises or scales or anything like that, but I did always know to breath properly from the stomach. I’m a pop singer and never really felt I needed more.
I was one of the most visible and vocal advocates of Secretary Hillary Clinton.
There’s not a day that I don’t work on vocals, have vocal coaches, go to acting classes, read books.
Crying is really bad for your vocal cords.
The thing with One Direction songs is that you can probably break them all down to an acoustic guitar and vocal.
Background scores allow me an absolute flight of the imagination, and I travel in my mind’s eye. I do not like the scores to have vocal notes, because they act as a limitation to these flights of fancy.
Where Joe was more vocal and emotional whereas Chuck was very reserved. But, both of them executed great strategy and both of them demanded a lot of their players.
Getting comfortable again and being in a vocal booth on the opposite end of the spectrum, when you’re normally the one tracking the vocals, is kind of scary.
I feel like a lot of like the old-timey Christmas songs, the classics, a lot of it is very vocal. A lot of harmonies and, like, crooners, it puts you in that holiday spirit, I feel like.
I’m a musician. I play instruments. I dabble in the hip-hop field. That doesn’t take vocal ability necessarily.
You need to make sure you’re doing vocal warmups and drinking tea – and if you have a really emotional scene, you have to make sure to take care of yourself afterwards.
I feel like most people know that I’m a vegan, and I’m a pretty vocal animal activist. Everything and anything I do, I just kind of use it as a vehicle to be able to send out the message.
There is nothing negative about a group of people crying out for democracy – and if my voice counts, I will be vocal.
The problem is I’m a perfectionist, so the producer might say he’s happy with my vocal take but I’ll say, ‘No, it can be better.’ I’ll do it again and again until I feel I’ve got the truth out of a song.
