Russell Crowe

So it's sort of like my motivations and stuff are,

you know very clear in that respect you know now with music it in itself is its own reward you know to play a song to sing a song to be with a group of musicians and to sort of gel on something together it's just like thank you very much that's the reward to then put it in front of a crowd and then have that immediate response

You know, obviously I've worked with a lot of actors over the years that come from a theater background.

And even though I've done a lot of theater, I come from a rock and roll background.

I come from out of clubs.

I come from, you know, standing on that stage singing my dweeby 16-year-old songs, you know, authored by a 16, 17-year-old.

And to me, that's my reset place, you know.

People will talk to you like Anthony Hopkins.

I was working with him and

He'd done a series of films.

This is way back in the 90s, you know, and I think he was off to do a season of King Lear and he was really happy about it because for him that's a reset.

You go back into that place where you came out of and you get all the benefits of doing the same performance over and over again so you get to, you know, squeeze all the different character sort of parts that you can, you know, and enjoy it.

That's his reset.

But for me, walking out onto a rock and roll stage...

guitar in hand where i do not know exactly what's going to happen that night because every audience takes things in a different direction you know um that's my reset you know it's like jumping that's me jumping out of a plane and i love doing it you know yeah they have different different buttons they push

Yeah.

I mean, it's performance, but there's a visceral thing that happens in front of a live audience that just doesn't happen in the sterile environment of a film set.

And you can have wonderful creative relationships on a film set and great collaborations and all that sort of stuff, the same that you can have in music.

But there's that other part of it.

There's that