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What's your routine before you step out on stage? Do you pray? Do you meditate? How do you gear up to give your best performance? GS: I don't meditate. I'm a prayer. I pray, but first I do my makeup [laughs]. My makeup is huge for me. I have this song called "War Paint." Putting on my makeup and getting ready, there is a kind of meditation in the preparation. Makeup is art, and it's like getting into character when I put it on. I've always done my own makeup for shows. And the praying for me is really important. We do a group prayer circle. In the last few years, and when I toured for the last show, the prayer is not just before, but also during [the show]. When I think about how ordinary I've always been, and to think that I've created all these songs, I don't know where they come from. I always think that it's got to be a channeling and it just comes through me. It's a spiritual thing that has been given to me to share. When I'm in the music, the music takes me right back to those moments in my life. And some of those moments are sickening, you know what I mean? Certain memories are upsetting. That's why I say this is not just a show for me, it's my life. It's real for me and I think that's why I'm very anxious about it. It's going to be a tremendous spiritual, emotional, and physical undertaking. GS: And I'm very lazy [laughs]. I like to not have to work out and not have to be committed to something. And I love to be with my children, of course. But it is such an amazing opportunity and they don't just hand them out to everybody. I feel really honored to be able to do it. I'm thrilled to see who's going to show up and it's going to be a lot of fun. I'm going to look back on this and say, "I can't believe I did that!" ML