Sting I've seen a few times, and he really inspired me in the sense that he breaks the songs down a lot and will take a different approach. He'll take an acoustic approach to them; he'll rearrange them for the live stage.
Dysphonia is not a singing problem. It's a voice box issue in the muscle on the voice, very different from having a nodule on the vocal cords, which I've never had. I'm lucky that I've never had that. It needs a long renewal time, and even today, I am still addressing it.
I really admire artists that are willing to take a different approach and a different angle to their shows.
My fears and anxieties throughout my whole life have been slowly squeezing my voice.
It always disappoints me when I go to a concert and they don't play my favorite song, or at least one of their biggest hits.
So many people bare their midriffs, I don't know why mine is such an issue.
I find that the very things that I get criticized for, which is usually being different and just doing my own thing and just being original, is the very thing that's making me successful.
Being betrayed is one of the most valuable lessons life can teach.
I've succeeded as far as I'm concerned - I don't feel that I have any cliffs I could fall over anytime soon.
I feel like I'm on top of the world. Honestly, I feel like I've climbed a very giant mountain, and I'm just standing right on top with my arms wide open and breathing rarified air.
Yes, you can lose somebody overnight, yes, your whole life can be turned upside down. Life is short. It can come and go like a feather in the wind.
I want to be successful, but I don't really have what it takes to do it comfortably.
I'm never at my best on television. There's a row of cameras between you and the audience, and it's very weird, very confusing.
I lost my sense of trust, honesty and compassion. I crashed down and became what I consider an emotional mess. I've never been so miserable in my whole life. I just wanted to go to bed and never get up.
I spent a lot of my life holding back my cries, and I want to change that because it's not good for me.
I want to talk to people that have been through big disappointments, big emotional crises, deep life struggles, and I will learn something from that.
I won't lie, I've had a lot of discouraging moments in the past years, moments I wasn't sure about things and doubted myself.
Suffering does not discriminate.
I don't want my body to be a distraction from my talent or my brain.
I do not see my family life in any way, shape, or form as an opportunity for a photo.
