Behinds Quote by Mandy Moore

Musically, though, you're a character and you're singing a song. If you're not your own character, you're the character in the song, most of…

— Jack White

Any time you're playing a character, you're seeing the world through their lens and their experience. That extends to how they experience music, how…

— Noah Reid

I think it's always interesting how music means different things to different people, and people who overthink it are looking to in some ways…

— Noah Baumbach

It definitely helps to have the acting experience going into singing, because when you're singing, you have to portray the emotion you were feeling…

— Ryan Newman

That's the good thing about music: you can sing about people's lives in its stages and feelings. Some songs can put something in context…

— Paolo Nutini

I find that, maybe because I'm also a singer, I hear music in characters all the time, even if they don't sing. I hear…

— Idina Menzel

You can sometimes get your own feelings across more strongly if you pretend that you're singing it from someone else's angle. But it's always…

— Chris Martin

When you're doing your own music, it's just you and your team. But when you go to sing someone else's song - Bollywood or…

— Neha Bhasin

Because the beauty of songs, I think, is if you do it right a lot of people can relate to it in their own…

— Amanda Shires

I'm very comfortable singing myself, first of all. Secondly, there's a certain disconnect when you write the song and you have someone else sing…

— Yngwie Malmsteen

Because of things like 'The X Factor' and 'Autotune', the real art of communicating a song is not treasured any more. But singing other…

— Katie Melua

So it's not so much that I set out to do something different, it's just that the songs themselves require their own individual voice…

— Ben Harper