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When I perform on stage, you have to remember my performance or buy another ticket to the party! In television and film, you can see it over and over again.

Sometimes, occasionally, people will make out in the audience, completely not aware that there's a human being onstage just yards away from them, who can see them. Sometimes people think that you're on television while you're onstage, so you're not even a person.

I feel like sometimes I get even more goofy onstage than I am offstage. I'm not trying to make the music less than what it is. Even if it's hard for me and I have to think about a lot of details, it's none of the audience's business. I don't want them to feel that I'm having a hard time.

As a member of the audience I don't like it that I can't see what's going on in the eyes and in the face and in the most subtle responses of a performer when I'm more than a few rows back. I find it very frustrating.

I feel that once you go into rehearsal, you need to focus on the show in the room.

When you perform in front of an audience after only two days of rehearsal, you're flying by the seat of your pants - particularly when they're rewriting the show right up to the moment the camera goes on.

There's nowhere to hide in the theatre. You can't be the one in rehearsal who doesn't know their lines.

You have to respect your audience. Without them, you're essentially standing alone, singing to yourself.

Comedians sometimes forget that there's an audience. You gotta be conscious that you're performing for other human beings.

As performers grow older, I reckon there are two ways they can go. They can either be up there, playing more deeply from their guts than ever, or they can be phoning it in so crassly that it leaves a lump in your throat as you leave the venue at the end of the show.