Steven Wright Quotes

I feel my live shows are my music; everything blossoms from the live shows.

Musicals are plays, but the last collaborator is your audience, so you've got to wait 'til the last collaborator comes in before you can complete the collaboration.

What I love is to create a show and for people to enjoy it and be aware that's what it is: a show.

In my mind, my music feels so big, a true production.

I'm perfecting my craft as an artist and as a performer, and my shows are getting better each time.

I'm really impressed every time Kanye comes to perform at 'SNL' because he finds a new way to make that space work for him.

I see my songs and shows almost like a mosaic - part of a bigger picture.

Isn't composing music akin to film direction?

I've always liked being on the performance end of it. I've come up with different ideas, but as far as being a creative writer, I'm not sure about that. I've always liked the performance end of it and wrestling, getting in the ring in front of a live crowd.

I personally don't prefer acting and directing in something because I don't have the same objectivity.

Before 'Memphis,' I had never considered working on a musical. But when Joe DiPietro sent me the script, I heard the entire score in my head.

Actors are a peculiar breed.

When I'm on stage, that's a job. It's acting, it's faking, just making fun of yourself, telling bad jokes - I'm pretty good in this - dancing, just to entertain.

I am not a technical drummer at all. I'm more from the Keith Moon/Lars Ulrich school of, 'Hey, look at me!' I just get up there and bash.

I think I'm a dancer in terms of what I do onstage.

3 Mics' has gotten me fans who actually like me. Now they have a sense of what I'm like, so I get to talk in a way that I really want, and it's fun to go on the road.

If you start adapting to audiences, you're really second-guessing the situation, and it becomes a bit more like cabaret.

I study entertainment and apply it to myself to one day become the greatest WWE superstar we have, and it's a lot of work. So I write jokes and material every day... you have to keep people's attention, one way or another.

I'm not the kind of comic who would try stuff on Twitter, because I have to work up ideas and I can only do that in front of people.

I don't work for the commercial success of the film. I work to satisfy my producers who give me the money. I work to satisfy the director who has written a script for me. Of course, I have to satisfy the actor in me, but I want to satisfy them first.

One time, it was really funny, I was going on stage... and they were like, 'Oh, we didn't mic the puppet! Mic the puppet!' So, that's how I know that sometimes I do a very good job, because they think that the puppet is actually, like, real.

Probably the most fun thing we do in our lives is getting up on stage.

We're entertainers. We're theatrical.

I just love performing.

At the end of the day, every decision I make about my music is about creating a collective.