The principle element in a performance is risk, and if you're losing interest then by scaring yourself to death the audience will feel it and boy it'll wake them up.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
You lose your energy, you lose that excitement and it gets the audience up.
If someone has an ability to impress an audience there's a tendency to be tempted into doing just that.
If you go on stage with the wrong attitude, or something in your performance is off, you can lose an audience in the first minute. That first minute is crucial.
A performance is only as good as the audience you are playing to. A lot of times you feed off of the audience, and we always try to give them all we've got and sometimes you don't get a lot back, but we've never been dead whenever we've performed.
It's frightening to be facing an audience. There is always the fear of what they think of you, what they are saying about you.
Most of the big money people don't know what would interest an audience if you did it. They only know what interested the audience last time.
When I go in front of an audience, I'll admit I sometimes have a certain amount of fear in me, because maybe the people are not going to accept what I'm doing today. That's bad for any artist, especially if what you're doing is not in line with what's happening today.
It's the adrenaline rush you only get from being in front of an audience. It's addictive.
I try not to think too much about what the audience is thinking and what they think I should do.
We're so afraid to lose the audience. Let the audience go.