Performing tai chi in space – it is comfortable; we got more outer space chi.

I think theatricality is just one way of performing. I don’t think it’s a better way or the way, but it’s my way.

When I was 3, I recited a poem at a festival in Passaic, New Jersey. The applause was tremendous, and it hit me that I could affect people positively by performing.

When you’re performing, you’re playing to the back row. With acting, you have to be more nuanced.

I know how to put it on when it comes to interviews and performing because I have to. But I’m pretty laid back.

It reset and mended my freshly damaged and distorted view of life, and made me recognize that this thing we call music, this primal expression that we reshape and refine and define ourselves with, is...

When you play, never mind who listens to you.

I really love live performing!

Endeavour to play easy pieces well and with elegance; that is better than to play difficult pieces badly.

if somebody doesn’t have any talent, get off the stage! you’re wasting my time.

Play always as if in the presence of a master.

I love performing. The more I do it, the more I grow into it.

I always assumed I’d spend my life happily performing in artsy-fartsy little theaters.

Most stand-up comics relish performing ‘in one’ – solo. They like the autonomy.

The thing I miss about performing is being with people.

Work controls my life, writing controls my life, performing controls my life.

I want to express myself in a different way. I have a performing inclination.

I have never wanted to give up performing on stage, but one day the tours will be over.

Just performing is where I’m happiest, and gets me rid of my troubles and worries.

It only becomes art if it touches other people.

But being here alone like this, it’s freeing.”Solitude can be freeing,” he said.

A lot of performing instincts are involved in the business of direction, but so is analysis and having a sense of literature.

When I’m not performing? I’m looking for the next big thing.