Metaphysics notwithstanding, I also insert myself in my fictions for no loftier purpose than to give me pleasure: to see myself performing onstage.
I was always tinkering around with stuff but nothing serious at the time. I was doing animations and drawing like crazy, but I wasn't imagining that I'd be performing music for people, that's for sure.
I think when I work with actors it's all about a process of learning to be private in public, instead of performing in public. Which is what women do: we perform, especially our sexuality.
I prepared for the part by drinking, but I was sober when I was performing
The thing I miss about performing is being with people.
I hold all of the songs that I have had the pleasure of recording and performing in high regard.
If I wasn't performing, I wasn't alive. That's the truth. My parents had absolutely no interest in the business, but they knew it made me happy, so they said 'Go for it, girl!'
I thought I wanted to be a performing and recording artist, and played many recitals and performances beginning in the 1970s. In the 1980s I went to the British Library and ordered and received reels of historical women and men keyboard composers, and thus was born Vivace Press.
My life, at least, is divided between writing and performing and mixtures of the two.
Music, it requires more than brawn. It requires a lot of heart. You gotta put love in there.
My way into making movies - into making things is general - has been through performing.
I was always performing, doing silly voices. The teachers realized I could go one of two ways: be creative or destructive.
Karl Agell sang for our Blind album which was our second best selling record. He's a great guy and as a matter of fact, before Mike, Woody and I really got going on touring on the old Animosity stuff, Karl & I did about a dozen shows performing the Blind album from start to finish. He's still a good friend of mine and is now in a band called Lead Foot that's more Rock and Roll but they're fantastic, kind of Thin Lizzy or MC5 sounding.
There's only, I think, in life, three things that I do pretty well: Performing, I still can field ground balls, and I make nice kids.
Do the people of the world not yet realize that by fighting on until the bitter end I am not only performing my sacred duty to my people, but standing guard in the last citadel of collective security? Are they too blind to see that I have my responsibilities to the whole of humanity to face? I must still hold on until my tardy allies appear. And if they never come, then I say prophetically and without bitterness: The West will perish.
I am so much of a mind now to be in the audience, to watch and to experience, and to feel, rather than having to get up and perform, I want my life to be less about performing.
The audience is like my instrument. It's not just me up there, it's collaborative.
I love performing. I love being a provocateur. I love putting myself in situations that are uncomfortable and that I have to get out of.
No person among us desires any other reward for performing a brave and worthy action, but the consciousness of having served his nation.
Acting is something I've done since I was six years old, performing for my mum and my family in the living room, and I do it because my heart's in it.
