I've essentially done theater for more of my life than I've done television or film, and it's really something I feel I know better.
With Hall & Oates, honestly, after years and years of playing the same material, it's easy to coast. I can coast through a show.
Usually, I don't feel comfortable with a character until I've played him before an audience for several performances. It is not until after three months of performing that I learn to discover what I call 'all the nooks and crannies' of the person.
I started in the theater when I was 10, so I grew up in the theater and was very used to that, but I love movies and television, also, obviously.
I'm so used to it, I think I'd feel very naked on stage without a piano.
I think a lot of people who go to drama school have this ease with the text and they all have five monologues that they know by heart, and I never had that. I've done Chekov and I've done Moliere and I've done classic stuff
I don't really know any other musicians like me. I grew up backstage with my dad who played in a post-war dance band, so I always feel at home at a venue.
I had been doing theater since I was a kid, so the stage really felt like home to me. It felt like the place where I trust myself the most in the world and felt the most confident.
I grew up doing stage work as a child and as a teenager, so the stage is my home where I feel most comfortable.
