I never took an acting class, so I've made all my mistakes on film.
I was onstage singing with Luke Bryan, and he started singing a song that we hadn't rehearsed. Both Luke and myself just winged it.
I just go in the studio and write on the spot and see what comes out.
So I figured in keeping with the record, I'd do something off the wall which is show up for free and wing it... I don't know, I'm just going to play some songs. I think it'll be fun.
My gigs are built on improvisation: I go out there and I'm like the Energizer bunny.
'Curb' is 100 percent improvised, which is wild. I'd never done anything like that.
Since I got an audience before I even had a comic voice, my material that really wasn't worthy of an audience somehow got it, slightly unfairly.
I have three daughters and I find as a result I played King Lear almost without rehearsal.
I'm always in awe of improvisers that make something out of complete nothing.
I like to improvise.
I don't practice or write stuff down - everything I do onstage was just made up before I went on.
I don't worry too much about the script, I just ad lib, like Pearl Bailey.
You don't get time to rehearse in film and TV at all.
When improvisation is properly applied, it is compositional thinking, sped way up.
The way it always starts with me making my music is I will never, ever start with the production first. It's always me at the piano, fresh on the day. I never come with anything prepared.
The way plays happen, at least with me, it's spontaneous combustion of things you've had in your head.
I never work out my leads. Everything I do is usually totally spontaneous. If someone says, 'That was good; play that again,' I'm not able to do it.
I kind of connected the dots, like, 'Oh, we're just saying stuff. We're just saying things that make sense, so let's just say them like you say them in real life.' It was my first and one of my only acting lessons 'cause I never really studied acting.
It's always weird when you see a movie, and there's no reason for someone to, like, jump on stage and be a singer, and then they just do that... But if it came organically, I would grab that mike and jump on stage for sure.
It felt scary because there was no auditioning, no rehearsing.
Sometimes on my show, I just play something out of the blue, and the band picks up on it.
My technique is different, and I am more spontaneous. I don't like rehearsing.
People used to think we just faked all that stuff... it was all written, rehearsed. The fact that it looks as cobbled together as it does is just that we weren't very good.
As soon as you know what you're doing, you're doing it wrong. That's what I find with acting. As soon as it becomes padded, it becomes pat.
