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The audience, they're not professionals. They just love music. It isn't necessary to play over their heads to be admired.

I understand our audience loves to see some drama on TV, but even they have got bored with similar patterns of carrying out reality singing shows.

For anyone who works in front of an audience there is no thrill quite like that of feeling and hearing the evidence of the audience members' enjoyment. Laughter and applause really are powerful.

Entertainment isn't just based on the very structured syndrome of European popular music, and it's great that there are so many thousands of people who are of the same opinion.

Singing and acting on a show is like theater; it doesn't get any better.

It's street theater. You have to make it entertaining so people don't get bored and walk away.

The adrenaline of performing on stage to a crowd - there's nothing like it.

Most performers take themselves too seriously. They forget there is a difference between the characters they play on the screen or stage and themselves, but the public doesn't forget there is a difference. They see how silly it is if you try to be the same person all the time.

The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.

The Broadway audiences are very vocal and seem very engaged. For certain shows, especially with a show like 'The Heiress,' the audience's reactions sound like 'The Jerry Springer Show' sometimes. That seems to be a very New York thing. Oh, there's also the entrance round of applause here, which we don't get too much in London.