Honestly, I'm a shallow performer. I just go with the text and feel my way around it. There's not a whole lot of shaping.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Usually, I'm just pleasing myself and I have very similar tastes I think to an audience, what that core audience really likes.
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.
I don't care what anybody says. Stick to the spirit of the play and you're doing it right. It's about embracing the spirit of the text instead of noodling some idea about things.
I'm not really calculated enough or trained enough as a musician or songwriter to create a style in order to please people. Ultimately, I just have to do what I like to do.
Ultimately, it's about the quality of the writing whatever style you are writing.
I think a lot of people think I'm doing kind of a character onstage, but what you're really getting is just me.
I do write a lot from personal experience, but I also embellish a bit.
I'm a performer. I push the envelope, I work in a very uncontrolled manner onstage. I do a lot of free association, it's spontaneous, I go into character.
There's nothing wrong with being shallow as long as you're insightful about it.
It's one of the things that looks good written down, but the reality is that you think about the pieces you're doing and try to bear in mind everyone in the audience.