Quotes About Commitment

I keep coming back because I have no place else to go. What else would I do? I love to sing.

But I knew if I ran I'd never be able to sing, so I had to take my punishment.

I am going to sing into my 60s and 70s and 80s, if I can.

You gotta 'be' country music - you can't just sing it.

I sing everywhere. I have a very patient husband. He says he doesn't mind. But we've only been married a year and a half!

I don't mind even if I sing a few songs every year, but I just want to do quality work.

For me, any chance to serve Singapore even in its limited capacity... I would be glad to take it up and use it to serve Singaporeans.

An opera singer is like an athlete before a match. An athlete cannot overdo anything. In order to perform at the highest possible level, you need to refrain from activities so as to be able to express this power.

I've always felt myself as being a serious singer.

To stay a great singer or guitar player, you've got to do it 24/7. That's what I do.

I had decided that if I was going to be a singer, I had to earn it. I had to learn how to play an instrument.

Being a mother, singer and actress is a definite juggling act, but I don't think I would be comfortable any other way.

I started my career as a singer in Japan, but left it all behind to focus on my dancing career.

There's a lot of maintenance that goes into being a professional singer.

I'm a method actor as well as a method singer.

I love being a mommy, and I love being an artist, and I love being a singer and an actress and making a movie - all that stuff I feel very passionate about, so I have a lot of energy for it.

Opera singers, we're not muscle men; you have to be careful about your work.

I never pursued voice hard enough. I've done musicals here and there, but I was never dedicated to really being one of these fantastic, operatic kind of singers that you have to be in some of these musicals.

If I stop practising, I will be an average singer. There are a lot of singers I know who hardly practise, yet sing well.

Today's singers don't have the time and are very restless and they want to record and just run away.

People ask me for advice. And the best advice I can give aspiring singers is to know in your heart this is your calling and there's nothing else you'd rather do.

Singing is my life. It has always been my life. It will always be my life.

Singing is my profession - there is no plan B.

My singing is really important to me, but when children come along they'll be my main focus. I'd never put my career in front of my babies - it'd be a case of fitting jobs around them.