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I felt like onstage I have to have a certain amount of anonymity, like, personal anonymity, to feel loose and free. When you're up there with people who've known you for a decade, and you make a bad joke and you hear the cackling behind the drums, it's hard to get lost in the moment.

There is a big difference between what I do onstage and what I do in my private life. I don't put my living room on magazine pages.

I'm now learning how to distinguish when I'm acting and when I'm not acting - offstage as well as onstage.

And when I perform on my own tour, I have to talk myself into going out on that stage every single night.

I feel like sometimes I get even more goofy onstage than I am offstage. I'm not trying to make the music less than what it is. Even if it's hard for me and I have to think about a lot of details, it's none of the audience's business. I don't want them to feel that I'm having a hard time.

I feel like I have a job to do, like I constantly have to reinvent myself. The more I up the ante for myself, the better it is in the long run. I try to interact with my fans as much as possible. It's good that the person I'm being onstage isn't really an act. It's really me.

Onstage is the one time in my day that I can let it all out.

I don't really move onstage; all I do is just gradually hunch more and more and jut out at the people in the front row.

I like to talk while I'm on stage. It makes the show more personal. With that said, it's got to stay within reason or it's annoying.