When I'm writing, I'm thinking about how the songs are going to play live. Fifty bars of rap don't translate onstage. No matter how potent the music, you lose the crowd. They want a hook; they want to sing your stuff back to you.
Onstage, I don't feel any glory from people clapping in the audience, but when they're pushing me to do something new that feels good.
How much more can you give? Other than, literally, open-heart surgery onstage? Not much. But the only cure you have right now is the honesty of going, this is who you are. I know who I am.
I'm not saying I look cool, but every single time I go onstage, it is a fail if I don't feel like I'm going to pass out at least twice.
I've gotten to where my hair is like my onstage prop; I need to hide behind it and throw it around - it's my slo-mo effect.
On a good night, I get underwear, bras, and hotel-room keys thrown onstage. . . You start to think that you're Tom Jones.
Onstage, I was never the ingenue.
When you find any great project - if it's onstage or it's a movie or a television show or whatever it might be, if it's wonderful, then that sort of transcends what the medium is.
The only reason we wore sunglasses onstage was because we couldn't stand the sight of the audience.
I can't eat before I go onstage because I've learnt that burping on stage isn't a good thing. It's all about acid reflux.
Whenever I'm onstage, I try my best not to think that I'm performing. It's simply another part of my day.
The first time I got a chance to meet Michael was onstage at Madison Square Garden. There were tons of people on the stage, and I just remember losing my mind. Like, Oh my God, that's Michael Jackson right there. I was just over his right shoulder. And then when I finally got a chance to get on the stage with him, I was just shut down. He had the type of magic that you just bowed to. I just said, "I love you, and I know you've heard it a million and one times from fans all over the world, but you've meant so much to me as an entertainer, and I love you, and I've admired you all these years.
I've always been into guitars. . . we want to put keyboards on, but keyboard players don't look cool onstage, they just keep their heads down. There has never been a cool keyboard player, apart from Elton John.
Approval isn’t necessary. It’s nice when you get it, but it’s not going to stop us from being who we are. I mean, if I’d have listened to approval, I’d never have made it one day onstage. But to be criticized, if there’s validity, as upset as you are, you can learn from it.
I feel like I'm still discovering my stage style, but I love - well, I'm not a huge color person onstage, but I am in real life.
I love being onstage. I love the relationship with the audience. I love the letting go, the sense of discovery, the improvising.
I'm closest to the music when I'm onstage with the band, playing.
When actors go onstage, you know immediately if they can do their job. You can be a lawyer or an accountant for years and not find out.
I'm not so much a rock star, d'ya know what I mean? I play Irish music. There's really no age when you stop playing Irish music. Even if I retired from playing onstage, I'd still be singing in pubs.
I'm a big fan of the young 1950s Elvis when he would just go onstage and control the whole environment.