Quotes About Artistry

There is no reason why a guitar player makes the guitar-playing faces. It doesn't help you play guitar. You've not improved your skills. It's because you're up onstage, and the natural inclination is to put on a show. The rock guy faces are just as much of a front or a show as us wearing crazy makeup. It's just a different scale.

I mean, you still can't jump offstage and go read a book. But I'm getting better at it. It is something you can manage. You can still give everything you have to the audience onstage, and have something for yourself.

As long as I don't go onstage completely normal and then jump into character onstage, I assume that most fans would be able to accept me as the creator. I can comment on the work the same way a director would on his movie.

Everything that I hate about myself goes away when I was onstage.

I'm actually not an exhibitionist at all. When you get onstage and you get under the lights playing music, I feel more hidden and more alone than anywhere else. You hide behind your music and let your emotions come out through the music.

I feel so much at home onstage and so comfortable in my body.

Maybe people have no idea how much work is behind a picture. It can seem very effortless, but there is a lot of work. It's exactly like doing ballet. It's hours and hours, but when you go onstage, it's just the pleasure of dancing.

Onstage, you can be anything you want to be. In concert, I might project a different side of myself, but I wouldn't do anything I'd be embarrassed of.

Singing is about telling a story. When you are onstage, you get to be your own self... When acting, you're someone else.

Onstage is the one time in my day that I can let it all out.

I was just making music in my bedroom. I never wanted to be onstage.

I just get onstage and sing. I don't think about how I'm going to do it - it's too complicated.

When I work onstage, I want to play roles that have real, deep theatricality, that aren't the sort you would easily see on television and in the movies.

These guys were always saying, 'The minute you get onstage, it's great, no matter how much you're hurting.' But that didn't work for me. There were some nights I did not want to get out there.

You know how Beyonce has Sasha Fierce? That's how I am. When I go out onstage, I become a different person.

You don't realize how much you miss it until you get back onstage and feel that buzz.

I love getting to be onstage with so many great musicians.

I just like to play and I'm always ready to be back onstage.

I've really improved, I think, as far as just being able to get up onstage with my guitar and sing.

When I'm onstage the joy is to try to be the best I can be, I'm there because I want it to be perfect.

Whether I'm performing in a club or onstage as Erika Jayne, whether I'm making records, whether I'm doing TV, I've got to entertain, and I have to take people away from their space and bring them into mine.

Musicians want to be heard. So I'm not hiding. But I do like to leave it there onstage and be myself, in that sense. Because some people carry it with them.

To be able to be at the level that I perform onstage, I have to embody everything I've made my music about. Which is me.

I think I'm a dancer in terms of what I do onstage.