I never think about the play or visualize anything. I do what comes to me at that moment. Instinct. It has always been that way.
Everything Dre and I do is completely on feel. We don't prepare for anything... we only work on instinct.
So with the freestyles, I just do it for fun. If I hear something that I like, I'm rapping on it.
I've never been good at improvising.
Live music is better.
There's something about the rawness of the live thing, there's no rhythm guitars behind the solo, nothing other than what you hear the people playing at that moment. It's exciting, it's about the performance.
Improvisation is not a presentational form, except in small doses, or as a game. It's a tool.
I've never written lyrics. I get up in front of a microphone, and I just sing what comes to the top of my head.
Improvisation is about finding the best joke or the silliest way to get something across. Improvising conflict is always fun because you can just go for it.
I love doing my podcast, but it's not my art form. I don't have to work on it. It's off the cuff.
My gigs are built on improvisation: I go out there and I'm like the Energizer bunny.
I play purely from the heart, y'know, and so if it doesn't work the first couple of hours, forget it.
It's the only time that I'm ever nervous on stage, is when we're doing live TV. Especially an awards show, because I know you can't fix it.
I don't like to plan. Very often, for me, acting is like loving; it's using the muscle that you use in loving, in that your heart feels open. Physically, you feel open. And so therefore your job is to enter, open, and listen. And see what happens.
There's nothing like watching a live performance of, frankly, anything. You have to make sure that people believe everything is improvised. I could not stress enough how little we [actors] prepare and what small amount of time we put in before these shows.
In the performance sense, I find that interpretation is improvisatory in nature. You can go anywhere with an interpretation on any given day.
When I go onstage, I don't know what I'm going to say. I don't know what's going to come out of my mouth. It's one of those questions where any and everything is possible. I literally could be talking about somebody I was hanging out with two seconds ago or something from the news. Literally, there's really no rhyme or reason for it. I want to be free flowing like that.
I always feel in improv that nothing is ever as good once it's repeated.
I've started getting acclimated to writing on the road and on the spot. I just let whatever I feel at the time come out, instead of really sitting there and taking days to write just one song.
I don't really plan what comes out of my mouth, and that's what makes most of my lyrics entertaining.
A first preview is not exactly a pleasant experience for directors and actors. You're never as raw as when the audience first comes in.
I don't practice or write stuff down - everything I do onstage was just made up before I went on.
I like to improvise.
My demo was terrible, I sounded like a chipmunk. I was so young.
My act is sort of improvisational. I have a skeleton in my head, but no fat or skin on it.
