If the audience walks out of a concert thinking, What a wonderful experience, then we have done our job.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
You think about taking audiences on a journey.
Music is a performance and needs the audience.
I love pulling people into concert halls who might not otherwise go and getting their ears tuned.
I've been told by a lot of people after concerts that they felt the show was just for them. And I try to make it that way.
Although I do feel that with a show like ours we ourselves are getting a lot more young listeners at concerts.
A lot of times you go to a concert, and when you leave, you don't know anything more about the act then when you got there.
When we did concerts, we wanted them to be theatrical events - collaborations with designers, choreographers, and directors - because we thought traditional rock concerts were boring.
I really like reaching out and seeing the audience - they're potential audiences! And on occasion I can make them excited about going to the theater again, if they've ceased or gone less.
There are times when I've had ideas walking down the street that I thought were great, and the minute I got onstage, I would think of them and go, 'Wow, that would never work,' even before I did it in front of the audience.
In those days a concert was a personal experience. I wanted to be as close as possible to the audience, and of course big stadiums didn't enable you to do that. It wasn't my style.