To perform on stage, you have to run through your paces till you are perfect. Despite the script and director, the actor makes or breaks the play.
I think people like to exaggerate about the number of takes you do.
Coaching to me is the ultimate high, especially when you have a game plan and you see that game plan executed to perfection. To see those players take what you put in front of them in preparation and turn it into a masterpiece - it doesn't get any better than that.
People got a little too self-conscious about the techniques that go into recording because sometimes, if you sing too well in tune, people accuse you of auto-tuning. It's like you have to use auto-detuning or something.
You never get the Shakespeares right. It's not possible.
Toward the later days of Sabbath, instead of going in and knocking out what songs we did in rehearsal, we would polish them to death.
I like to try the scene over and over, but given the confines of television, I don't have that option.
My best takes aren't necessarily take five or take six. My best takes are usually take two.
