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On stage, you can use your emotions. It's the place where you can channel them. They have a purpose.

I have had a very difficult time with stage fright; it undermines your well-being and peace of mind, and it can also threaten your livelihood.

When you walk out onstage in front of 65,000 people, it can bring you to tears.

Stage fright is my worst problem.

I try to bring the audience's own drama - tears and laughter they know about - to them.

I've seen people that get onstage and sing while they have tears running down their face - I can't do that. When I cry, it starts like in my throat, so when I have something that's really emotional, sometimes if I access that too much, I can't finish the song.

I'm a very private person, and when I leave the stage, I leave the stage.

I go where people are hurting. I stand on the stage, and I make people laugh for an hour and a half.

When you were on stage, you could be absolutely open about your emotions and indulge them and express yourself in a way that - in real life - I wasn't doing.