Performance Life Quotes

I live halfway between reality and theater at all times. And I was born this way.

I've managed to keep my career going in a way that suits me. I'll perform, and then I'll go home to my actual life, and I've never been so visible.

As a musician I'm kind of nomadic, Waldo-like. I show up in different places, and I'm witness to unbelievable things.

When I was five I was touring, singing and dancing. Always gone, always out of school.

And even this heart of mine has something artificial. The dancers have sewn it into a bag of pink satin, pink satin slightly faded, like their dancing shoes.

I doubt I'll be singing forever, because at some point people aren't going to want to hear my music, and I hope that I'll still get the opportunity to write songs.

All the world's a stage we're going through.

Sometimes we feel like life is like theater, really.

Touring is really a weird social experiment, even though everyone thinks it's a party every day.

In a way, all actors are gypsies, or much like a traveling circus.

There's this great fantasy of going to work, every day, and getting to play out what people think my life is, as a successful actor.

But for me, I thought you made a record, you got on a bus, went out and played your shows and made a lot of money. That was the way it was supposed to go down. But there's a lot more to it than that. There are a lot of early mornings, late nights, a lot of traveling, a lot of being away from home, being away from your family.

I spend my jollity on stage, so there is less in my own life.

But the soul of touring and the heart of it is basically every day is like putting up a circus tent.

The life you live in front of an audience is like an altered state - it's not totally real. I'm always, even in the course of one day, trying to find ways to balance both sides.

If I was to have a reality show, it wouldn't be a show based on my personal life. I'd want it to showcase me and my girls on tour, like living life as a young artist, not exposing what goes on in my family situations.

My whole life is a practical joke. Every evening and every show has really become about entertaining me. I was always like that. And now I've come full circle because that's what the TV show is too.

Actor's life is very long.