Quotes About Performance

Onstage, we're very dominant and aggressive. But we laugh and play a lot, too.

I have never been a different person onstage than I am off.

I want to be able to deliver the kind of show that I want - to go onstage with my chin held up.

I like that because the fans want to see onstage what they know so well from the big screen.

I'm my own most merciless critic onstage.

As a kid, I dreamed about being onstage.

It's always been about the live show for us. We're having Halloween onstage every night.

Half the time, when I first run onstage, I can't look directly at the audience just because of self-consciousness. It's human nature. Sometimes you feel like the man, and sometimes you don't. But sometimes that self-conscious energy is good for the show, it draws people in more.

I could never go onstage in denims.

The more guitars we have onstage the better, as I'm concerned.

I want to feel lucky every night when I go onstage, and not feel like, 'Oh, great, here we go again.

I've always enjoyed playing live onstage.

But even so, I still get nervous before I go onstage.

Onstage, there's no hiding; you either can or can't act. There's no second take.

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.

If you can jump up onstage and make people laugh, shouldn't you also be able to inhabit a character?

Onstage, I was never the ingenue.

I thought I was going to be a lot more freaked out by being naked onstage. I think on film I would have been more freaked out, because film is less forgiving. But onstage it's lit so beautifully. It would make my mother look good.

I play loud onstage for my own benefit as I like. But I'm not too fond of the P.A. either.

I only wore makeup when I went onstage.

I have made stage adjustments which allow me to hear myself better onstage so that has made playing live much more enjoyable.

I get angry about stuff, I get very emotionally intense about stuff and that's how I get it out - with books, with the band, on my own onstage, but it's always kind of a wail.

Onstage I have a natural chutzpa that audiences like. I'm out there.

All the satisfaction I need... comes when I step out onstage and see the people. That's awesome. I love that.