Zitat des Tages über Zugabe / Encore:
It wasn't just about flashing lights and pinball machines blowing up and things like that. It was about using encores, bringing back the good songs and using techniques that I knew about from rock performance.
The crowd can be a little different in some places. For example, in Europe, people tend to be very respectful. They try not to make too much noise at inappropriate times. In other countries, people can be very still. Sometimes I'm not sure if a crowd is into it until the end, when they usually want me to do something crazy for the encore.
I do not, as a rule, do encores. When I have finished playing, I have indeed finished playing. I have nothing left; there has been no reserve.
I don't walk off and come back for encores. I figure I can add four weeks to my life that way.
It was most exciting when people first came up on the stage and then when they came back for the encore. We wanted to make a show that kept on developing, that was interesting, so we tried to do that with our live shows.
I think an encore is perfectly acceptable, but I find it so weird when people do two or three.
For an encore, I might do health-care cartoons using my own blood. That will be my last act.
'Encore' was an experiment. 'Encore' was the second chance at a first impression. 'Encore' was not completely planned.
Actually, after the release of the Bond film, the producers came back to me to offer me another one, but I didn't have any juice left for an immediate encore.
In my concerts, people love when I sing a Latin encore with guitar.
Cancer reminds me of a very bad but tenacious performer who, although no one wants to see, insists on doing an encore, having a return engagement, making a comeback and, worst of all, going on tour.
