I meditate and pray before going onstage - it helps me focus.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I always meditate before every show. I say a prayer with my crew and my band to get in the mode, and I also stretch because it's a very athletic show. We've got to entertain; it's what we do.
But even so, I still get nervous before I go onstage.
I used to be more involved with every aspect of everything onstage. I'm way more relaxed now. It feels like anything can happen.
If I do a bit on stage, I prepare too much. Those bits are all really, really carefully written, and overwritten, and researched. I really don't feel like I can wing it. So I write it out word for word, and when I'm onstage I'll improvise around it.
When I go onstage, I want to relieve your mind, your pressures.
I have made stage adjustments which allow me to hear myself better onstage so that has made playing live much more enjoyable.
It's a crazy world, so I meditate for 20 minutes. I also meditate for 20 minutes before a concert.
People think I am the crazy person on stage, but I know how to relax.
All I have to concentrate on is my performing.
I don't really move onstage; all I do is just gradually hunch more and more and jut out at the people in the front row.