If you've followed us from when we started playing live in October 2010, you will notice that there has been numerous changes over the years.
I love the challenge of an entire year has gone by and how has that affected the character you're playing.
Anytime you have an opportunity as an actor to really grow along with your character, I think that's a real gift.
If you have the quality, you can only improve as a young player through match practice. That seems obvious, and it's proven to be true in my case.
My management skills are more suited to developing teams to be better than what they were before, and not just about avoiding relegation.
For me, there's nothing more valuable as an actor, or better way to learn, than getting to perform in front of a live audience, no matter where you are. Whether it's on Broadway, in Florida, or doing a tour.
Eight shows a week is daunting, and it can be terrifying. But it just instills such a sense of confidence and growth.
The crowd is the crowd. You're gonna take them as an individual performer how you take them. The key is how do you learn from them. How do you use whatever is happening reaction-wise to get better.
Growing up, I thought it would be great if I could do big theaters. Now we're doing arenas.
When I was doing half-hour shows, I loved it and was preparing myself for the hour shows. Then when I did the hour shows, I was preparing myself for the specials and features.
Somehow, I landed The Walking Dead and it's great because it stretches and works different muscles for me, and it really lets me stretch myself as a performer. Now, I'm really excited to flex my comedy muscle. Hopefully, I'll get some opportunities to do that.
Normally, I rely heavily on my director to massage me out of my actor comfort zones.
Performing is something that has really grown on me and become an important part of my life, which I didn't used to feel. I didn't used to want to really perform live a lot. It's been an interesting adjustment.
Delegation requires the willingness to pay for short term failures in order to gain long term competency.
The first album was more born from busking - they were the 'me-and-my-guitar' songs. Going out on the road and opening for big acts changes you. You look out at those audiences and start to think, 'OK, I need to write some music that's a little bit bigger.'
I think when we were making the first album, we were like 16, 17 years old, and I think just years and years of recording and playing shows - I know me, personally, I kind of figured out my style more and vocally learned a better way to sing in the studio.
If you play well, hopefully you'll continue to have opportunities and have your minutes grow.
I really enjoy acting. I feel I'm getting better and better with each movie I make.
Once you train you develop your own aesthetic and your confidence. So, I think as I grow I'm learning how to be a singer. I'm training my voice and being on stage and singing and dancing.
We have to improve at club level - and at the international level, there is a lot of room for improvement.
I think people do get better as the movies go on sometimes, and I'm always happy that we're shooting out of order, so it's kind of scattered throughout the movie, and there isn't like a clear build in everyone finding their characters.
If you're getting goals and getting a run of games in your preferred position, your confidence is going to grow, and performances are going to grow as well.
I cultivated this fan base that I really didn't really understand or appreciate until I put my first headlining tour up for sale. 500- to 1,000-capacity rooms weren't an underplay for me at the time. I'd never done a tour before!
I am the poster boy for brick-by-brick foundation building. Play a club. Put on a good show for 35 people. Come back. Build your market. Have people talk about you.
The more you're out there singing, learning, and adding roles to your repertoire, it reforms the next piece.
