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It's interesting to watch myself with an audience; I'm trying hard to learn from it.

I need a break from myself as much as I imagine the audience does.

It's one of the things that looks good written down, but the reality is that you think about the pieces you're doing and try to bear in mind everyone in the audience.

I learn something not because I have to, but because I really want to. That's the same view I have for performing. I'm performing because I really want to, not because I have to bring bread back home.

When you do what I've done - the normal Hollywood way, where you let people do things for you - and then you make certain choices where you have to learn to do it for yourself, which is how you should do it, it caused me to get way behind in stuff. I wouldn't change a thing because it's been a very important learning thing.

I think long and hard about what it is I'm actually trying to do, and then I kind of have to narrow my focus into that. If I don't, I'm too all over the place.

One thing changes every evening: It's the audience, and I'm working my magic. I'm always learning from it.

I'm so critical of my own work that it's difficult for me to disassociate myself and watch it as an audience.

I have learned to watch myself and give myself constructive criticism. Although I have to cover my face and peek sometimes!