If you want to sing, learn to love your own voice first. Become very familiar with how you sound, you don't want to go out and try to sing someone else's song in the exact same way they sang it. You need to own your voice, roll it around on the tip of your tongue, savor it.
I love to sing. It's taken me a while to learn how to sound good, like a lot of things in my life I've enjoyed doing it before I really started understanding myself or digging deeper into the task itself.
I know it was grilled into me as a kid - practice, practice, practice. Perfect practice makes perfect. Practice makes permanent. So, practice to do well, then practice better and better.
It is, now, something newer to me that I directly understand the implications of that practice. I enjoy it all the more when I do something I like to do well - and I have the time to practice, and the motivation. Ok, with the little one, not all the time in the world. Obviously :)
But to be at a point in my life that I have the perspective - knowing exactly how working on something can pay off, and that at this point it seems that the payoff for something fun, like music, or exercise, or pottery - etc. - that peak is what I can't see the top of. But the whole of it, each step up, is just more beautiful.
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