I always take a hot shower before I go onstage. It's so refreshing. I let the steam into my throat. That's the way I warm up my vocal cords - in the shower. I start by humming and then finally singing.
Maybe I'll put my iPod in two minutes before. But truly, I've listened to actors say that they loved to listen to music before a shot, and I really understand that now because it puts you in the mood and gives you energy.
Yup, the toilet is my best friend before a show.
I will have a playlist ready that I'll play out to the audience before I walk on stage, and I'll listen to that same playlist in the room, so by the time I walk on stage, I'm in the same frame of mind the audience is.
At every show, I pray with my band. It's a big thing.
Right before I go out, we usually put on some Lauryn Hill or Fugees, and I'll do a shot of tequila just to calm my nerves.
We always pray before we go on stage. It's just something that I've always done. For me, it's a big thing, and the guys in the band seem to appreciate doing it, so we do it at every show.
Before every show, we pray together, and after, we talk and have fun and laugh. We make sure to keep each other sane and happy.
I am definitely someone who needs to take a second by myself and stretch and breathe before a show.
I never miss yoga before a show.
I warm up. I do about 50 push-ups with my trainer and my security just to get pumped up before a show, get our energy up. And then I just go have fun.
I know it's a guy thing to chest bump, but me and my dancers chest bump before hitting the stage. Not too hard though...ouch!
I try not to eat right before I perform. It's better to perform on an empty stomach - it just feels better. You just feel like a leaner machine. You're not worrying about digesting things.
Dominic Sherwood would always tell me a joke right before it was my take or my close up. He'd say a funny joke, and I couldn't stop laughing, even after they said, 'Action.'
Before I play a show, I put on lavender oil - it's sort of a ritual.
I find an apple before singing really, really helps... It's like there's something in the pectin in the apple that helps get rid of vocal clicks.
Besides the vocal warm ups, me and my band have a secret hand shake that we do just to get us all pumped. It's nice.
Nothing like a bit of 'The Best of Times' before prancing around on stage.
I have to have sound in my ears for 10 minutes prior. I come to the theater early, two hours, just to calm down and warm up.
My little secret before I do every scene is I say a short little prayer.
