All I had done for five years was work 18 hours a day all over the world. I needed to step back and distance myself from it.

I work for me, 18 hours a day. It's my gig. So I don't have time to get a point of view.

It's been the work that has carried me and I never wanted to rest on my laurels or go back and do what I done before.

I practiced for at least two hours every day for twenty years, before then I practiced maybe four to five hours a day, and before then 14 hours a day. It was all I had ever done.

I've been able to go on and have a successful career on Broadway and certainly the last five years in Las Vegas have been amazing.

For me to go back and to play for audiences some of whom have been following me for thirty years and some who have found me in the last five or six years, that's really an interesting thing. I have an audience that goes from kids to seventy year olds.