To perform on stage, you have to run through your paces till you are perfect. Despite the script and director, the actor makes or breaks the play.
I think people like to exaggerate about the number of takes you do.
Coaching to me is the ultimate high, especially when you have a game plan and you see that game plan executed to perfection. To see those players take what you put in front of them in preparation and turn it into a masterpiece - it doesn't get any better than that.
You never get the Shakespeares right. It's not possible.
People got a little too self-conscious about the techniques that go into recording because sometimes, if you sing too well in tune, people accuse you of auto-tuning. It's like you have to use auto-detuning or something.
Toward the later days of Sabbath, instead of going in and knocking out what songs we did in rehearsal, we would polish them to death.
I like to try the scene over and over, but given the confines of television, I don't have that option.
My best takes aren't necessarily take five or take six. My best takes are usually take two.
