I have a love-hate relationship with performing.

It was hard to bear your soul while someone was talking to their friend about a new sweater they bought.

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 the gift I was given. The ability to communicate what others feel but cannot fully express, the passing down and around of songs and stories, from Pete Townshend to Joey Ramone to me, to the audiences who take the time and effort to support our work and give us a way to support ourselves -- I'm thinking this is what I am supposed to be doing.

The time of the third millennium is the time when the people of God will walk, covered byGod’s glory, performing great wonders and miracles.

I'm thankful for performing as long as I am allowed.

Powerpoint presentations are a kind of theater, a kind of augmented stand-up. Too often it's a boring and tedious genre, and audiences are subjected to the bad as well as the good.

In the early days, I might have gotten on stage and begun to sing as a desperate attempt to communicate, but now I found that singing was both a physical and emotional joy. It was sensuous, a pure pleasure, which didn't take away from the emotions being expressed—even if they were melancholic. Music can do that; you can enjoy singing about something sad.

I like performing because it's direct contact with live people. I write a good deal of the time but that's introspective creation rather than interaction.

Dare to outlearn your best performance.

You can reach maximum performance by engaging in physical activities.