I always sang in church always was in a gospel choir and directed choirs and always performed, but I never thought of it as a powerful thing.
Performing on stage is what I've done since I was a kid and it's where the passion that has started from the very beginning for me, and that's what I'm going to enjoy.
Every summer, around late July and into August, I find myself in Europe, performing at any festival that will have me.
One of the most important elements in teaching, conducting, and performing, all three, is listening.
Where I come from, if you weren't a drag queen or a radical thinker or a performance artist of some kind, you were the weirdo.
I was always singing to myself, but I never ever performed, and I never told anyone I liked to sing. So it was a definitely a new adventure going in to audition for 'Glee.'
All of them - my father, mother, step-mother, and grandmother - were all wonderful actors and performers and they are an inspiration to me, both in their craft and in their humanity.
I'm getting older; you realise you are on the countdown of what you are doing, so performing means more than it ever did to me.
The world is a complicated place, and there's a lot of division between people. The performing arts tend to unify people in a way nothing else does.
There's nothing like a play. It's so immediate and every performance is different. As an actor, you have the most control over what the audience is seeing.
My background was producing and writing and performing in television when I started out, and I really missed that, that whole creative process that comes from sort of 'me' storytelling.
When we help others to perform at the highest level of their potential, we receive something of value; our character is strengthened.
Man must vanquish himself, must do himself violence, in order to perform the slightest action untainted by evil.
It was appointed by law in Athens, that the obsequies of the citizens who fell in battle should be performed at the public expense, and in the most honorable manner.
I think performers are all show-offs anyway, especially musicians. Unless you show off, you're not going to get noticed.
Any Wall Street advertising that does not go into the boring details of methodology is most likely to be pushing past performance.
My guess is many top athletes, distance runners included, use performance-enhancing drugs, enough so that the problem must be tackled.
Brooklyn is where I primarily developed. I had an opportunity to make records and perform in clubs here and there, and I started networking with the right people in the right places.
I'm a fan of making films. Whether I'm on stage or in front of a camera, one of my first loves is performing for the people. I'd like to do more acting.
It always gave me the creeps when I saw performers who desperately wanted the audience to like them. That's not what I'm about.
I would really, really, really like to be a legend like Madonna. Madonna knows what to do next, and when she's performing, the audience is just in awe of her.
