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So many nights I'm up there on stage and I wish everybody out in the audience could see what I see and feel what I feel.

When I'm on stage, my interaction with the audience is something that really makes me come alive. It's a feeling like no other. The energy of the crowd fuels something new inside.

The great thing about stage is that you have a live audience.

I just enjoy being onstage and relating to the audience.

I used to be more involved with every aspect of everything onstage. I'm way more relaxed now. It feels like anything can happen.

I love the stage - the fact that you only have one take to get it right, the interaction with the audience, and how every show is different even though you're doing the same thing.

There has to be an interaction of musicians on stage. Otherwise I feel too alone up there. When performing is really good, when it really works, maybe once every 15 shows, it's very special, and you realize that's why you do it.

When I'm on stage, I feel very much at home - within a theater, within an ensemble - so this entire process is something I feel very attuned with.

Performing live on stage is such a community, whether it's my musicians or a cast of a show that I'm in. And then when you're in the studio or on set, it's a much more solitary experience. Both can serve me at different times in my life. And when I go back and forth from one to the other, it helps me appreciate all of them much better.

I began to work the stage and get the audience into it. I also learned how to have fun out there. It is something I will never forget.