Quotes About Passion

I love playing on Sundays.

When I'm not playing football Sundays, I get pretty bored. When I don't have that, it's kind of tough to get by.

I've always been a singer. I never really decided I was gonna be a singer. It just kind of - I just sung a lot.

I have sung all kinds of songs - be it ghazals, qawwalis, romantic numbers or peppy numbers.

So don't think in reality I am a singer, I think I am a human being that has sung always all her life, and has learned a little to sing, and has found herself in the middle of a career.

I have sung every song with the same dedication like I sang my first number.

I started out singing covers. I've sung a lot of 'em and love a lot of 'em.

I think I write very good songs. But I don't know if anybody could record my songs with as much fervor. They sound good sung by me, and they especially sound good with my band.

The purity of finding the right artist, that artist that's gonna be the next hall of famer, that artist that's gonna be the next headliner, lifting people out of their seats at Madison Square Garden, that song that's gonna be sung for hundreds and hundreds of years, that essence remains the same.

I've sung a whole lot of jazz. It's my favorite style of music to sing. People don't realize it, because they're so accustomed to hearing me sing musical theater.

I started out dabbling in rock and roll; then I did playback, and I have also sung for my own songs on screen.

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

I'm not a singer. I've sung in character, but it's just not my thing.

Every time I went into the studio, I always sung with my heart. If it came out as strong, as good, as powerful as that to my fans, then I was satisfied. I never slacked. I always did all the songs the same way as the first.

I've always sung in choirs and acapella groups, but when I was in college, I finally started writing songs and playing with a band, and that ignited a desire to do it full time and pour everything I had into it.

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.

I knew my focus was going to be somewhere in the arts. I've always painted. I've always sung. I didn't know when or how it was going to happen - or what it was going to be.

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

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.

I'm a sunglasses aficionado if I do say so myself.

I've been obsessed with sunglasses since the beginning of time.

No one believes this, but when I'm working, it's the same, whether I'm working on 'Bad News Bears,' 'Before Sunset,' 'A Scanner Darkly,' or 'Fast Food Nation.' I'm the same person, trying to make it work.

Until I was about 13, somehow I managed to assume that everyone reacted to everything just about as I did. I took it for granted that everyone shared my passion for overcast skies. It came as quite a shock when I discovered that there were actually people who preferred sunshine.