The club shows are really intense and powerful, but for a shorter time, and the audiences are in close proximity than when I'm performing at The Palace Theatre.
It is important, even if you performed a role the night before, to think, 'This is the first time this is going to happen.'
We have all, at one time or another, been performers, and many of us still are - politicians, playboys, cardinals and kings.
You learn so much from competition you gain confidence every time you have to step up and perform.
Most of the time - at the Grammys for example - a DJ will perform with just their hands in the air because they can't do anything and that makes it a little awkward, I think.
I don't speak English, so I'll just have to win the trust and confidence of the fans with my performance on the field.
There are films that cost a lot of money that might be decent films. But if they don't perform in that first weekend or two, they're gone.
I can't sing, perform, do anything apart from Christ. I have no power or strength of my own.
People in positions of power and privilege have a duty to perform at a higher level. If not them, then who?
Musicians by and large make a living with a relationship with an audience that is economically harnessed through performance and ticket sales.
A coach once told me there are four factors that determine a players' performance: his tactical awareness, his physical condition, his technical ability and his mental strength.
For me, I've never drawn a distinction between live-action acting and performance-capture acting. It is purely a technology.
I have always loved Las Vegas. It's a traditional place for lounge comics to perform, and I love that.
I love drag queens... they perform me better than I ever could myself.
The stage is close to being in the middle of the hall, so that the performers are surrounded by the listeners. I feel that we are all experiencing the music together.
I'm really in touch with my fans. Through their emails, letters and stories is how I decide what music I'm going to perform.
It is the element I miss in electronic music - no performance, no loving immersion. Maybe that is why I was never particularly drawn to electronic music.
Concert repertoire is some of the most beautiful music ever written, and I frequently seek out opportunities to perform it.
New York City is a notoriously hard market to perform country music in.
The joy of doing well as a batsman for your country is much more than that little joy of going for a party and enjoying music. It is a completely different high, and I get high by performances. That's what I enjoy now.
The thing I like about 'Nashville,' it just happens to be about musicians, and all the music is practical, meaning it's performed at a concert or during a rehearsal.
