The real test of a musician is live performance. It's one thing to spend a long time learning how to play well in the studio, but to do it in front of people is what keeps me coming back to touring.
Singing is something I love to do. I feel very confident doing it.
When you're up on stage, especially being a female guitar player in a male-dominated field, if they just see you're into it, and it's your passion, and you're just giving it your all - it's not, like, an accessory - then it's all cool.
I never thought I could sing. I still don't.
In comedy you feel you need to go back to the theatre every now and again, you feel you need to go back to an audience every now and again to see if you're still getting your craft right, making people laugh at the moments you think they should and that sort of thing.
When the author walks onto the stage, the play is over
I just had a throwaway part, really, if you think about it. I'm not a natural actor, you know? I'm a comedian, through and through. And I really love my lines. Those are the lines I want to do.
It was really strange for me when I started to play concerts in America where the audiences were all sitting down.
Good actors are always looking for props. They're looking for behavior. It makes it a lot easier. You're not solely dependent of what's coming out of your mouth. You're also less self-conscious, less aware of the camera.
I'm not sure why I'm so often disgusting on stage. I don't always know where it comes from.
With stage, you feel completely like you're just in a bubble. I love not being able to see anything. I love coming out and I can't see anything because the lights are so bright and it's pitch black. That's ideal for me, that's when I have the best time.
I'm a different guy on stage.
You say you're a comedian, you always have to be on guard.
I always considered myself a performer. It's what God gave me. It doesn't matter if one person hears it or a million.
Watching Bernadette Peters perform is like an acting class. She's amazing.
I've been playing live since I was in sixth grade.
It has been my experience that the greatest performers in the genre of sports-entertainment are usually natural extensions of their own, true personality.
My strength lies in prepping. I'm not someone who can just walk onto the set and perform.
I got a few laughs and decided I was going to act.
I've never acted, but I'm an entertainer. So I kind of used what I know from being onstage. I've done a thousand and two interviews, and I've been on camera a million times, so I'm not uncomfortable on camera, but it was interesting for me to be someone else.
I was in California, and I was going to UCLA, and I knew I certainly didn't have movie star looks. I remember seeing pictures and photos of Ethel Merman and Mary Martin, who were kind of average looking. I said, 'Well, that's for me, then, to go back to New York and try to be in musical comedy on Broadway.'
I am an entertainer by all means, and I am going to always take stages and will fall on my face with those stages without a care because I am not afraid to fail.
Acting for me is not that quid pro quo.
I'm still learning and trying to become a better actor. I still feel insecurity.
Jimi Hendrix is very important. He's my idol. He sort of epitomizes, from his presentation on stage, the whole works of a rock star. There's no way you can compare him. You either have the magic or you don't. There's no way you can work up to it. There's nobody who can take his place.
