Quotes About Expression

My first album was very eclectic and very soft as a vocal expression.

You need to make sure you're doing vocal warmups and drinking tea - and if you have a really emotional scene, you have to make sure to take care of yourself afterwards.

I feel like I've always believed what I believed. I've just become more vocal about it.

Sometimes, to be honest with you, our lyrics were written a day before the vocal had to be done.

If you don't make those vocal chords work, they'll go dormant on you.

I think I've learned a lot on the vocal side of things.

I actually ended up going through a vocal change. It started about two years ago, and it's only been recently that I found my balance again. Vocally, I couldn't figure out what was going on. My lows were getting lower, and my highs were getting higher; everything felt weird.

It is kind of easy for me to speak out. Just because I am very vocal in my music about a lot of different emotions, like anger, and normally stuff that people would hide, I'm okay with as a woman.

It is very important to be vocal about what you feel about a certain issue.

I started taking vocal lessons, I always loved the challenge of playing my instrument and trying to sing.

I can do the vocal acrobatics but I really try not to. I've always been drawn to singers who sing it like it is, pure, straight down the line: Ella Fitzgerald, Patti Smith, Carole King. Simplicity is really important to me.

At the same time women are putting on the headscarf, they are also going to work, to education, increasingly vocal in the media - and this is the confusing thing about Muslim women in the West,. They are becoming Westernized at the same time as they are adopting their religious identity more strongly.

Usually what I do is I write my vocal melody over guitar parts and then I come up with lyrics.

I've always been vocal in my matches, and I've always made a lot of noises, a lot of random noises.

In the past, if you were too vocal, it was considered a negative. Now it's encouraged.

I never start a song at the beginning; I always start in the middle, working with the original concept. That might be a loop or a vocal hook. A weird noise or a string sample. Once that's at the heart of the song, I work concertina-fashion, expanding the song forwards to the end and backwards to the beginning.

I have to learn how to be more vocal. I'm not good at that and I have to improve.

Ultimately, I'd say a lot of my vocal influences are jazz-based, people like Ella Fitzgerald, or Fred Astaire.

Because I'm a Christian, when I write things are going to have a certain flavor. When you're writing songs you try to be careful. You make sure there are no conflicts with what you believe, especially when you've been real vocal about being a Christian.

Almost every time, if the vocal is really good, the band is almost always good too.

I've been very vocal in the past about my mental health issues.

A lot of people with a range of styles and vocal tones make all kinds of music for all sorts of audiences. I'll be forever grateful for that.

I've learnt there's nothing you can't do. I danced, for instance. I am not as reserved as I used to be. I've been on the reserved side since I was growing up perhaps because I was an only child, but that changed. I am way more confident. I'm more expressive and vocal.

I'm someone who has always believed in being extremely vocal about my thoughts, and I'm definitely not someone who's afraid to speak her mind.