I just think you shouldn't expect people to pay money to see someone sing live and then lip-synch.
I think the world is ready for some rock 'n' roll. Some real time guys that play their own instruments, write their own songs, and sing the music and have a good time doing it.
I don't think gay guys are in touch with how many fabulous divas we have that actually play their own instruments and write their own music, too.
I would rather do live than any kind of lip-synching or something like that. I don't like to lip-synch.
There's not another lip-synch song on the planet, in the history of lip-synching songs, that has been lip-synched more than 'I Will Survive.'
We write our own songs, play our own instruments.
I've never relegated the lip-synch to a lower form of entertainment. Lip-synching is an art unto itself. A lot of people can't do it.
Inspiring girls to write their stories and play their own instruments is something I'm passionate about, as it's not championed.
Normally, with stand-up, it's quite solitary, you write the material on your own, you perform it on your own, it's all very much on you. Your own thoughts. You have to sort of modulate your own performance.
I actually write my own music whenever I have a chance. I play guitar and sing.
I play a lot of instruments. I write all my own music. I spend hours and hours a day in the studio. I'm a producer. I'm a writer.
I got into music through just being inspired by my brother and sisters. They all sing, play instruments and write - and they're very good at it.
If Janet Jackson does the story of her life and I'm still young enough, I am there. No one can pull her off like I can. I have a dance background. I'm definitely not cutting an album anytime soon, but I can lip-synch all day. I can't sing, but I can act like it very well.
I've always chosen all my own material; no one ever told me what to sing or how to sing it, but I've always been pressured intensely to use musicians outside of my band.
At 13 years old, I realized I could start my own band. I could write my own song, I could record my own record. I could start my own label. I could release my own record. I could book my own shows. I could write and publish my own fanzine. I could silk-screen my own T-shirt. I could do this all myself.
You always do that with movie musicals. You prerecord and then you lip-synch to playback.