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I've been performing my whole life.

Performing is a profound experience, at least for me. It's not as if I sit down and play 'Fire and Rain' by myself, just to hear it again. But to offer it up... the energy that it somehow summons live takes me right back, and I do get a reconnection to the emotions.

Giving a good performance, giving it all is what it's all about. I love to perform.

I consider each performance to be an intimate conversation between me and the audience members.

I'm not a performer who will come on stage and tell you everything about my life. It's just not who I am.

I feel like with every performance that I see, I get better because I've always thought - while I'm watching people perform - of what I would do.

I do understand that onstage there are times when you think, 'I could not be more alive than I am at this moment. I can't do most things in life. This is what I'm for.'

When you look into the eyes of your people out there that came to see you, that's when it's like, 'Yep, this is what it's all about.' This is why we don't sleep, and this is why we write songs and try to be the best. This moment right here onstage.

I move on stage differently. The more you act, anyway, the more you live, your perception of life becomes more and more accurate.