Ten Things I Have Learned on Tour

1. Touring is definitely not for everyone, but touring is for me.
2. Accepting who I am as a performer and having the confidence to go out there and trust my work, my talent, and what I can do, and not worry about what people have done before me or what others think.
3. Learning to pick and choose my battles and to approach them tactfully, and learning that many people have not learned this.
4. Learning that other people are entitled to their mood swings, and when you live together on the the road, these mood waves are bound to clash sometimes, but it is ok. It does NOT mean you don’t care for the other person and they don’t care for you, and, at the end of the day, you don't love that person.
5. No matter how many hours I have been on that bus, no matter how little I’ve slept the night before, and no matter what is going on in my life, the minute I run onstage for that overture, I’m there. All my heart and all my soul goes into the work. That someone out there is seeing this show for the first time.
6. Living and breathing the work with your fellow castmates, which only gets better as time goes on.
7. Being a sponge and absorbing everything from everyone around you, especially from those who have been in the business a long time, and taking the lessons to heart.
8. Not everyone in life is going to like you, no matter how hard you try. Just continue being yourself, being kind to others, and reaching out to those who need it, and those who are meant to be your friends will come along. The ones that don’t accept you for who you are don’t matter, but these will ultimately be few and far between.
9. It’s ok to be crazy. And hiding your eccentricities for too long will only make you want to explode. Be who you are.
10. From Ted: You can be a famous celebrity and the most humble, caring, kind person in the entire world.
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