Quotes About Performance

You can be an incredible player, but when you get onstage, you've gotta be yourself, and you've gotta bring it, as we say, and that just means give 120 percent.

I'm always making micro-adjustments onstage, listening to the audience, and what a crowd is like can be infectious.

We run around onstage constantly for about an hour and 45 minutes, and we know what that can do. You just feel great at the end of the night and when you wake up in the morning.

That's part of what made me interested in theater as a kid. It made it acceptable to be a man for an hour onstage.

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

Working with film directors helps me grow, but nothing like the incremental jumps I make onstage.

It's not about me. It's about what I'm doing for kids. When I walk out onstage, there's 15,000 kids that, to me, represent potential.

I don't write anything. It's all done onstage, which is why I always tell younger comics that they just have to go do it. You have to get up, talk, and take a thought or a word and just expound, and you find it in there. I don't sit down and write.

A lot of comedians are really funny onstage, but they can't do a podcast.

I wore Chuck Taylors for a couple shows, and the second show I wore the Chuck Taylors, that was the one and only time I fell onstage. I haven't really bit it onstage in high heels yet. It will happen. It's not about if, it's about when.

I'm someone who is quite shy, and onstage I'm quite... extrovert.

A concert is my experimentation time. I practice playing something several different ways, but in a concert, inevitably I get more ideas onstage, in that combination of focus and adrenaline, than I could ever get in the practice room.

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

I'm pretty comfortable in a car to know what I'm doing, and I'm exactly the opposite onstage.

I just do my thing onstage - it's just what happens. No one, even if they're into the band, can know it's as natural and real as anything can be. I don't think about it.

I always just felt more comfortable just kind of hiding behind a character than being myself onstage.

Entertaining and being onstage is such a rush; it's amazing... and I just hope that it can last, and last for a long time.

When you know you have a good song, when you're onstage, even if it's just a weird, basic energy, you know your song is good.

I'm generally a fairly shy, withheld person. But when I get onstage, I get a bit mad.

When you go onstage, the process of getting you from the dressing room to the stage is all about ego.

This accident, or incident, happened in the most secure place I could have felt I was in: Walking onstage with my guitar, you know?

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

A lot of people get a high from being onstage. I found ways to enjoy it. But I get it from being in the studio.

I actually got to go back to where I was born and perform there. I just brought my mom up onstage and was like, 'Look, here we are.'