Quotes About Experience

I can sing the blues and I have sung the blues. I feel it internally when I'm singing.

I have sung, but I haven't sung in any way that I would ever call myself 'a singer.'

I've sung before, first in a band in high school and then in a band in Norway, but never in a musical.

I did perform in punk bands, but it was more about shouting and snarling than about any beautiful music. I enjoyed singing in 'The Golden Circle' - I've never sung in a movie before.

Mostly everything I've ever sung comes from a personal place.

For me, it was pretty hard to go into the studio and sing English for the first time, because I always sung in German, and we've been making music for seven years and it's always been in German.

I've never done a musical before. I've sung, off and on, all of my life. But I have never, ever done a musical.

As a child actor, I had sung a song in the Bengali film 'Bhagyadebata' but it wasn't kept in the final edit.

We've always sung. As I have become a grandmother and become older, of course you have less voice and you notice this in the bath.

I have sung songs in many Indian language be it Kannad, Tamil, Telgu, Marathi, Bhojpuri or Hindi and worked with all the good music directors.

It still hasn't sunk in that I'm going to be in Coronation Street. Everything about the role is brilliant and I'm working with some great people.

Seeing 'The Gospel According to St. Matthew' was an extraordinary experience because it made me realise that all the biblical stories and images I'd ignored as a child had sunk in by osmosis. I saw that my childhood was deeply rooted inside me.

Listening to the type of music I grew up with, like King Sunny Ade, Fela Kuti and experiencing different things and conditions and hardship, as well as the good times in Nigeria, has definitely carved me into who I am.

I've always worked with new directors. 'Pyar Koi Khel Nahin' with Sunny Deol, Anupam Kher's debut film 'Om Jai Jagdish,' and Niraj Vohra's 'Khiladi' were all first-time films.

I've never liked the moment of seeing something beautiful - a sunset, a moose, an elephant - and then raising a camera and trying to capture it for some future moment. That's always struck me as strange.

Being in L.A. has definitely given me the opportunity to experience how my music sounds in real life because I can drive around and listen to the mixes, which I couldn't do in New York. I get to feel how a song works in combination with a sunset and a drive through the mountains.

In my long innings, I have seen many sunrises and many sunsets; many good and bad times.

I don't know what you could say about a day in which you have seen four beautiful sunsets.

You either live under a rock or you walk in the sunshine. That's pretty much how it goes.

I never had a better role than I had in 'Little Miss Sunshine.' That was one of my favorite roles ever.

When I was doing 'Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind' I was asked, 'If there was one part of your life that you could erase, what would it be?' And I was so stunned by that. I thought: 'Nothing.' I would keep all the good bits and the bad bits, because those things made me who I am.

If I saw 'Virgin Suicides' or 'Eternal Sunshine,' I'm so proud to be in those movies. They are such great movies. I felt so free on those sets.

The fans of 'Speed' are very different from the fans of 'To Wong Foo,' which are different from 'Donnie Darko.' Look at the classics I've been in: 'No Country for Old Men'... 'Little Miss Sunshine'... 'Rain Man' was my first big studio movie! How lucky is that?

We thought L.A. would just be sunshine and happiness all around.