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A lot of concerts leave you wanting for something good to eat or drink while you're there.

I've gotten to go to the Opry a couple of times and stand backstage and watch. But I made it a point not to take a tour or stand in the circle until music took me there. I told myself that was one place I'd never go unless music took me there.

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.

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.

I'm not somebody who no matter where I go there are paparazzi or any of that nonsense. But I have a little window into that world and I can enter it and dance around. I want to be the audience's ticket into the party.

At Disneyland, you never go 'backstage' - even when you're in the bathroom.

Performing has been part of my life since I was eight years old, so that's what I think I do. I don't think about the fact that it happens to be in a bigger venue where people get to know you, or they think they do.

A small venue is so much more intimate and loose. You can actually be more spontaneous, I feel.

I try to be careful not to do single concerts where I fly out, do my show, turn around and go home.