Too often we're happy to receive thanks from the nonprofits we fund, accepting gratitude instead of feedback or performance measurements.
I actually enjoy Britney Spears. Not as a singer but as a performer. I just enjoy watching her. I think, 'You are so brave.'
There is an event once a year that I'm able to sing at, through 'Passions,' in Tennessee. That's always fun. We perform at the Wild Horse Saloon.
My songs are very personal, which means they are fantastically therapeutic to write, but performing them night after night is emotionally draining.
You see, dancers are quite mature people because they start performing so early. They become professionals when they start to take everyday classes.
I like noise. It's always puzzled me why one of the goals of contemporary recording is to get rid of noise and to eliminate any element of a performance.
I think of myself as a performance artist. I hate being called a pop star. I hate that.
Love is 100% percent practical, oral performance is an ultimate turn-off, whether you like it or not.
I arrive at the theatre four hours before the beginning of the performance. I must get accustomed to the hall even if I know it well.
If you want to judge the performance of the Egyptian people by the standards of German or Chinese or American culture, then there is no room for judgment.
Many performance poets seem to believe that yelling a poem makes it comprehensible. They are wrong.
I take the longest to get ready of anyone. I've been going in two hours before the show every performance.
You've got to perform in a role hundreds of times. In keeping it fresh one can become a large, madly humming, demented refrigerator.
I've been able to perform in front of thousands of people on stage in a character that's nothing like me. I'm very shy.
I used to cry myself to sleep every night. I missed singing so much. And performing. Man, I missed it so much.
I definitely loved going on stage, I loved the nervous feeling and the performance and the doing-ness of it. It always felt kind of natural and inevitable and logical.
Right before I go on stage, I'm absolutely terrified. My mind darts at many directions, but the center of me is going forward into the performance.
The most memorable performance was my appearance in concert in Carnegie Hall. The first standup to do so.
I've been really, really blessed. I got to perform on stage with Bob Dylan. I've gotten to sing with Mick Jagger.
I don't feel that I have to control every aspect of things that I appear in. You learn a lot performing someone else's writing.
My wife will tell you that if you feel my hands before I walk on for a performance, you could chill a bottle of wine.
