"Singing is fun. Singing better is even MORE fun!"
Couldn't agree more.
This from a talk we did on MacColl and The Critics a few years ago.
The MacColl quote is from a private interview we did with him in 1980
Jim Carroll

He (MacColl) was insistent that, in order to make a good job of singing it was necessary to put in a great deal of time working at both the technique and the analyis of the songs.
Contrary to the impression put about by some people that The Singers Club was a place where you went to worship songs rather than enjoy them, Ewan believed that in order to get the maximum pleasure from singing it was necessary first to tackle the technical problems.

E.M. "Now you might say that working and training to develop your voice to sing Nine Maidens A-milking Did Go or Lord Randall is calculated to destroy your original joy in singing, at least that's the argument that's put to me from time to time, or has been put to me from time to time by singers who should know better.   
The better you can do a thing the more you enjoy it.   Anybody who's ever tried to sing and got up in front of an audience and made a bloody mess of it knows that you're not enjoying it when you're making a balls of it, but you are enjoying it when it's working, when all the things you want to happen are happening.    And that can happen without training, sure it can, but it's hit or miss.   If you're training it can happen more, that's the difference.   It can't happen every time, not with anybody, although your training can stand you in good stead, it's something to fall back on, a technique, you know.   It's something that will at least make sure that you're not absolutely diabolical……………
The objective, really for the singer is to create a situation where when he starts to sing he's no longer worried about technique, he's done all that, and he can give the whole of his or her attention to the song itself, she can give her or he can give his whole attention to the sheer act of enjoying the song."