Brooke Baldwin Quotes

It's fun to write your set list 20 minutes before and keep the crew very much on their toes.

When you perform in front of an audience after only two days of rehearsal, you're flying by the seat of your pants - particularly when they're rewriting the show right up to the moment the camera goes on.

There's real drama in performing live. You never know how it's going to be.

'A Little Nightmare Music' is the first show we created. It's about all the nightmares that can happen in the span of a concert. When things go wrong - when the lights go out or a cellphone rings - that's when an audience suddenly comes alive, wondering what's going to happen next. Things going wrong often leads to something good.

When it comes to performance, I don't like to prepare at all if I don't have to.

Live television is just like competing on live TV. You're never going to be perfect. You just try to prepare the best that you can and execute the best that you can and try to be in the moment.

When I was doing 'A Disappearing Number' in Plymouth, we had to go on an hour and a half late, and I still hadn't written an end, so we had to make one up, and then we had to go out literally with our pants round our ankles.

I don't like knowing what the next song is because that's what I'd think about during the number we're playing.

You have to be ready to sing and perform at any time.

Classical stuff takes a lot of rehearsal time and preparation, but with stuff that involves improvisation, you can over-rehearse it and it gets stale. You don't want it to be too comfortable. In fact, a good sound check, a good rehearsal usually means a bad performance.

When I play a solo I'm just expressing that moment. It can go horribly wrong easily enough.

My first-ever date on my first tour, the sound completely cut out. So I had to go on and just shout loudly to the audience.

I don't like a lot of rehearsing.

It is hard to be an actor on a TV show, because you don't know what's coming and you sort of find out very last minute sort of what's happening.

In TV, you're always confused because you legitimately don't know what you're doing the next week.

When you're making a reality show, you can't even plan a week ahead now.

There are no rules in live television.

My comedy is different every time I do it. I don't know what the hell I'm doing.

I don't think I'm sharp enough to not prepare and come on set and kill it.

When you're onstage in theater, if you mess up a line, there's no 'Cut! We'll get it again.' It's full steam ahead.

It's so liberating to play a song in front of 50,000 people that you've never played before. Not something you played a long time ago and have forgotten: Never. Played. Before. There's something magical about it.

I love the stage - the fact that you only have one take to get it right, the interaction with the audience, and how every show is different even though you're doing the same thing.

The hardest thing I do on stage is to self-induce amnesia. I want to go on every night and say, 'I've never sat in this chair. I've never been in this room.'

Here's the thing about The Go-Go's: Onstage, any moment could be a total train wreck.

I think from doing so many live shows it gives you a real appreciation of being present. You don't know what's going to happen, you don't know what is around the corner.