The thing with Led Zeppelin songs is that they were never the same. They were very fluid and tight but loose.
I just like surprising people. I never want to get to a place where people see that I am in a movie and they go see the movie and they expect a certain performance one way or the other. That is just inherently boring to me.
You perform for a different audience each night. People who don't understand just think that you go out there every night and do the same thing, but you don't - you have to find out who they are and give it to them.
No translation can possibly be perfect. Every production and every performance is a different path up the mountain, and nobody ever makes it all the way to the summit.
I may sing the same songs for over 40 years now but I always sing them in different ways in order to keep the excitement and passion alive.
I think if you have a series for a long time, it's in some ways like being in a play with a long run - in that the character stays the same - and so you are constantly posed with the challenge of making it interesting and unique week after week, year after year.
I think - there's always going to be a percentage of people who maybe aren't as good as others.
One of the things I find very difficult about theatre is the repetition - that something can slide away from your original intentions.
It doesn't always click for a new player in a new team: you don't always go in and hit the ground running and score all the time.
If you're working with a producer like Rick Rubin or whatever, you sing each line probably 30 different ways. Each time, they're like, 'Can you try it this way? Can you try it that way?' That's each line in the song, for each song.
The crowd really controls how I am onstage. One show, it might be a lot of young people, super-high-energy dancing. I mirror that. Other shows, it's much more calm.
Some nights you're going to have a lot of energy, some nights you're not. The great ones find energy from nothing.
It's 2019. People aren't going to shows to watch a band play the song exactly like the record.
Playing live is about going for it .. it's about bringing it ... you should see a bunch of people trying out stuff, actually performing, instead of learning the record and recreating it note for note. I can't play the show the same way every night .. I really need to be in a creative environment, every night or I'll go nuts ... my manager accuses me of singing just long enough to get me to my next guitar solo - which is true.
Actors want to do Shakespeare again and again, or want to do Hamlet. When you hear one guy do Hamlet and another guy do it, it's going to be a whole different experience.
Four directors through their own interpretation created four different characters. And I had to play them in a fairly short period of time.
Crowds are always different, but I know I have hardcore fans who watch everything I do online, so I have to make sure every match is different.
I've learned that every game is different. You could play one team and have a terrible game and the next time you play them have the best game of your career.
As an actor, I don't want to do something which I have already done before.
The negative is comparable to the composer's score and the print to its performance. Each performance differs in subtle ways.
You cannot compare warm-ups with World Cup games.
All performances are different. I don't think it's necessary to compare one with another. I am just me playing the role of Lear. You're bound to get a Holm approach to it, whatever that may be. I just got out there and did it. I'm very much a doer in my acting.
You have a different audience. Your personal energy is different because some days you're energized, some nights you might be tired so that affects your memory and your emotion.
I didn't hit the ball like I was 46. But I putted like I was 66.
The exercise in theater is night after night you are doing the same play, but you have another opportunity to explore. It changes nightly even because of the audience and your day going into the evening of the performance. With film it's much more controlled.
