Quotes About Talent

I'm not good at anything! I can do, like, two voices.

Best two rock voices I've heard in a last few years both have been from grunge bands: it's Eddie Vedder and the other one is Chris Cornell from Soundgarden.

I just felt like there was a world of cartoon voices that had to be discovered by me.

I think that Stevie Nicks is one of the greats. Steve Nicks and Grace Slick and Janis Joplin have the real rock voices, to me.

There are hundreds of people running around with great voices. If they would study and develop them they could become great singers.

There's plenty of people who can sing OK that make terrific records, and I love them from afar. But when I make a record, I need great voices. That's always my mandate.

I've always had a penchant for dialects. I remember getting detention and being told, 'Have a think about where doing these funny voices might get you someday.'

Singing in multiple voices, especially Oscar's, can make my vocal chords tired.

When I did 'Opportunity Knocks' at 14, it was singing in other people's voices. So I'm more comfortable doing that.

I'm a huge closet Mariah Carey fan - she's got one of the best voices probably ever.

Basically, I listen to voices. If they write good songs and they can sing, I'll probably like it.

I think I had a knack for music, but I think what I was more sort of talented at more than anything, because I don't think I'm a great singer, I think that I grew up imitating different voices that I heard.

I was really young, just playing with puppets a lot and doing all the voices and acting it out - normal kid stuff. But then I'd hear my mother talking about it to her relatives, marveling at it as if it was something unique. And it made me realize, 'Oh, maybe I do have a talent for something.'

I consider myself to have one of the greatest voices in the industry.

Some artists just ruin their voices because they don't know any better.

I was shy: I sang at home but not in public. My dad's side of the family sang, so I would hear their voices and think mine couldn't compare.

I think I do too many voices in these shows. I think it's because we have trouble getting voice talent.

I've been doing silly voices since I was a child.

Sundance was started as a mechanism for the discovery of new voices and new talent.

People see my impressions as a great skill and I am flattered, but there are things I can't do that everyone else can. I can do funny voices and funny faces but I can't drive.

I have no new voices - they've all been used.

Plus, I've always felt that, if the worst came to the worst in my career, I could always fall back to doing voices on the radio.

I can make the argument that people who don't have the biggest ranges but have very unique voices, even if they may be pitchy at times... with the right record that's really unique and distinct, they can have big hits.

You have to understand that I'm not just some guy who voices characters in animated movie and TV shows.