My life with the Beatles had become a trap. . . I always remember to thank Jesus for the end of my touring days; if I hadn't said that the Beatles were 'bigger than Jesus' and upset the very Christian Ku Klux Klan, well, Lord, I might still be up there with all the other performing fleas! God bless America. Thank you, Jesus.
Do the people of the world not yet realize that by fighting on until the bitter end I am not only performing my sacred duty to my people, but standing guard in the last citadel of collective security? Are they too blind to see that I have my responsibilities to the whole of humanity to face? I must still hold on until my tardy allies appear. And if they never come, then I say prophetically and without bitterness: The West will perish.
What was most important to me at the Olympics was going out there and performing my best. When I messed up the first jump combination, which was my big move, it hit me that I messed up the program of my life.
I feel connected to a higher power when I'm making music or performing. There's a spiritual experience for me.
Performing alone - it's a very solitary experience. When you're in a band, when something amazing happens on stage you can look at each other, "Yeah! we're so locked in. " Or if something goes wrong, you can look at each other and shrug and say, "Oops. " If you're doing it by yourself, you reflect on it in a completely different way.
To be at the top, you have to have a competitive streak in you. If you're not performing, you've got to be angry with yourself.
I like radio and live performing stuff. I don't like the television stuff as much.
How does one magnify a calling? Simply by performing the service that pertains to it.
I thought I wanted to be a performing and recording artist, and played many recitals and performances beginning in the 1970s. In the 1980s I went to the British Library and ordered and received reels of historical women and men keyboard composers, and thus was born Vivace Press.
Performing is one of the best feelings I know!
Literally since I could walk. . . I was performing.
I've dreamed about performing songs, songs that don't even exist, as a complete song.
I can remember a lot of nights performing in those early years where you felt that you hit some good moments, but a lot of the time you're thinking, "Oh, God, this isn't quite making it. " So I think that is what makes you in the end refine your view of things a little bit.
The audience is like my instrument. It's not just me up there, it's collaborative.
The Internet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhoea - massive, difficult to re-direct, awe-inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind-boggling amounts of excrement when you least expect it.
Songwriting is an art unto itself, not to be confused with performing.
There's one thing you can't download and that's a live performance. And I know how to put on a show, and enjoy performing, and I'll always have that.
I want to quit. Not performing, but being a woman altogether. I want to throw my hands in the air, after reading a mean Twitter comment, and say, 'All right! You got it. You figured me out. I'm not pretty. I'm not thin. I do not deserve to use my voice. I'll start wearing a burqa and start waiting tables at a pancake house. All my self-worth is based on what you can see. ' But then I think, F*** that. . . I am a woman with thoughts and questions and s*** to say. I say if I'm beautiful. I say if I'm strong. You will not determine my story - I will.
I always saw myself performing on stage and the girls yelling out my name.
Performing in front of a live audience can be pretty intimidating, so having a full head of hair was important to me.