I did come to L.A. to try to get on TV and get in front of a camera, so I could have a stage career in New York.
Between 18 and 26 I acted professionally, on the stage and a little bit on television. Acting is okay, but it's quite pressurized. Then I went to England - I wanted to reinvent myself.
The thing that fuels me the most is the desire to be on stage. And singing is the ultimate way of expressing all the emotions that I have inside.
On stage, I think I'm 35. Working takes over my whole body and I become a younger man - that's why I won't stop.
Oddly enough, I have really bad stage fright - getting up in front of people. And I made a living going on live television.
The international travelling gets harder as I get older, but when I'm performing on stage, it makes it all worth while.
Everybody goes through a stage where you have it. And, all of a sudden, you don't have it anymore. You get older and the audience gets younger.
I was the first one to allow a projectile to come off of the stage and into the audience. And I kind of take responsibility for the mosh pit.
All of world's eyes are trained on the Games. So winning at that stage is heroic. It is a different feeling altogether and cannot be explained in words.
Rehearsals and screening rooms are often unreliable because they can't provide the chemistry between an audience and what appears on the stage or screen.
One of the problems with putting Huck Finn into a movie or on the stage is, you always make the white people stupid and racist. The point is, they don't know they're racist.
I never wanted to go longer than five years off the stage. Not necessarily musicals, but just doing a play or something.
Getting on stage is a bonus, that's my therapy, that's when I can tell stories and it all makes sense.
Forty is when you actually begin even deserving to be on stage telling people what you think.
'The Miracle Worker' is just such an incredibly powerful play on stage, and is so kinetic, and athletic.
Nobody could dissapear to their trailer once it was up and running, you were all there on the same stage. It was 10 days of rehearsal and 10 days of shooting, which was very tiring.
I get way more nervous playing golf in front of 500 people than being on stage in front of 20,000 people.
I remember growing up knowing I wanted to be on the stage. I wanted to get to London as soon as possible and start auditioning for theater.
I couldn't talk to people face to face, so I got on stage and started screaming and squealing and twitching.
Whether it means having a show, or a movie, or just being on a stage, I need an avenue to say what I have to say.
The audience will make you feel like a demigod. But when you leave the stage, get back to being human.
