I do sometimes feel that I'm on a stage all the time, and I do feel that life is a stage for my art.

我时时刻刻都在舞台上，我的生活就是我艺术的舞台。

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I've noticed that now I'm at this stage I literally jump out of bed in the mornings excited to work on the projects that I have a real passion for.

我注意到，我现在处于这样一种状态：每天早上我几乎是迫不及待地跳下床来，带着激动的心情投入那些我真正有激情的项目。

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At this moment I'm feeling the same freedom I usually feel only on stage, without a doubt, I need to share.

那时，我感觉到了只在舞台上享受过的自由，毫无疑问，我想要把这些跟人分享。

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And, you know, one of the things that I'm always battling - and I've only been on the national stage for a couple of years now - is that tendency to edit yourself so much that, at a certain point, you stop sounding like a regular person and you start taking on, you know, the persona of, you know, those bad politicians in TV movies...

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And I see the power of music when I'm on stage in China: I start a Chinese song and the audience roars with delight that the blond, curly-haired girl with the banjo can sing their music.

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Ms. LOVE: It's a lot of fun for me to be in it because I tell everybody it's like reliving my life the whole time I'm on stage because back in the '60s I was with a group called the Blossoms and we did a television show called "Shindig!"

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