Normally, the same strange impulse which brings a crowd to an accident is present in the reaction to a concert in which something goes wrong.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
When you're onstage, you're acutely aware of the reaction of a particular group of people, because it's like a wave.
If you get an impulse in a scene, no matter how wrong it seems, follow the impulse. It might be something and if it ain't - take two!
When you go to a concert, part of being there is that you're all hearing the same thing. It's about being in a crowd. If you go to a gig and there are two people there, then it's not the same thing.
The energy of the crowd is insane. Twenty thousand people. It's the biggest jolt of adrenaline. It's very hard to explain. You know the old story about the woman lifting the car off her kid? It's in that realm. You can actually hurt yourself and not know it.
The theatre is the involuntary reflex of the ideas of the crowd.
When reason and unreason come into contact, an electrical shock occurs. This is called polemics.
My live performance, it just comes from feeling an energy and emotion from the crowd.
Occasionally if you do something extraordinary, the crew responds with spontaneous applause, but that's very rare.
The concert is a polite form of self induced torture.
The adrenaline of performing on stage to a crowd - there's nothing like it.