As a solo performer, it's total involvement. What I do is to break down the wall between audience and performer.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The greatest benefit of being a solo performer is that it is seriously frightening, but at the same time very empowering. It's just you and the audience. All the weight is on you to deliver the songs.
The most important thing you can do as a performer is to be yourself, or be an onstage version of yourself. If you're not being true to yourself, and somebody likes that other version of you, you're kind of stuck.
And at the same time, you are of course a performer, but it's very important that you understand that your role as a performer is to get the best performance from those wonderful colleagues that you have the chance to work with.
I'm a performer. I push the envelope, I work in a very uncontrolled manner onstage. I do a lot of free association, it's spontaneous, I go into character.
I am a performer; that's what I like to do.
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.
Performing is my therapy, to become different people onstage.
A performer needs to feel the part to be the part!
I'm a performer. I've tried everything there is.
I'm a singer and performer in a hybrid show that's standup, music and audience participation.