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All performers get on stage because they need to feel love from an audience. I might appear confident, but those three seconds before I get out there, I'm a mess. But I have to take the risk; otherwise, I'd be miserable and would feel like I wasn't seeing through my personal destiny.

When I'm on stage, my interaction with the audience is something that really makes me come alive. It's a feeling like no other. The energy of the crowd fuels something new inside.

Sometimes, occasionally, people will make out in the audience, completely not aware that there's a human being onstage just yards away from them, who can see them. Sometimes people think that you're on television while you're onstage, so you're not even a person.

I'll eventually go back to theater because the feeling of being on stage where you have the audience right there, you can't replace that with anything.

There's a oneness to showing yourself to an audience. They feel that. It's healthy. That's what acting is all about.

So many nights I'm up there on stage and I wish everybody out in the audience could see what I see and feel what I feel.

When I'm on stage, it's like a different world ... me connecting with the audience. It's a surreal experience.

Live stage is being made as you go along. You feel the energy. There's nothing like a live audience.

I feel like sometimes I get even more goofy onstage than I am offstage. I'm not trying to make the music less than what it is. Even if it's hard for me and I have to think about a lot of details, it's none of the audience's business. I don't want them to feel that I'm having a hard time.

I have this sensation of being in flight all the time, but being on stage is like creating a sanctuary in which you can completely lose yourself. The bits of your personality that you keep under wraps in ordinary life, you can let them run free.