Onstage Quotes

Onstage, I am a devil. But I'm hardly a social reject.

I believe the best persona to be onstage is the one that comes naturally.

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

I don't use sex to sell records, obviously, but I'd be lying if I said that I don't feel like I have to make an effort to look good when I go out onstage, to wear something pretty.

I like to do the splits onstage.

In the beginning, the media was calling me a bad boy all the time because of the way I act and feel onstage. None of them have ever taken the time to get to know me when I climb offstage.

However I am is however I am. When you see me onstage or in the press, there's not a lot of thought and calculation that goes into it.

I'm getting to a point where everything is becoming streamlined in my life. I'm learning how to stand onstage for two hours and play in front of thousands of people as if I am completely in the moment every moment.

You know, I think whatever a comic talks about onstage is all they talk about offstage.

The first time I got onstage was when I was about 5 years old. It was at a church social, and I had a poem to recite.

I wasn't really the most charming person, socially - it took me a long time to develop my people skills - but the one place I was always comfortable was onstage, acting or singing.

Well, a lot of people don't know this about me, but I'm actually shy around people I don't know. I would just say with my first concert, my first tour, I didn't really talk onstage. I was like, 'Thank you, I love you guys,' or whatever. But now I've just kind of learned to work a crowd.

From offstage until the moment I walk onstage, I constantly tweak my talk show and 'Top Model', but at the same time, I often leave my private life by the wayside.

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

I love theatrics and have a huge imagination: Why would I want to sit onstage and sing a bunch of ballads back-to-back?

The first night was awful because I was so afraid, and I was never more afraid because it was going out of my character to be outgoing and to be vulnerable and to be out there and onstage. My hands were sweaty and I couldn't swallow, and I drank a bottle of wine to calm my nerves.

You get onstage and make other people feel happy. Make them feel good.

When we're onstage, it's like mind reading: we're on the same page.

I'm a performer. I push the envelope, I work in a very uncontrolled manner onstage. I do a lot of free association, it's spontaneous, I go into character.

The Comedy Store in LA, it's a really loose room and it's really dark and creepy and a great place to explore your own thoughts onstage.

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

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 used to be more involved with every aspect of everything onstage. I'm way more relaxed now. It feels like anything can happen.

When you're onstage, you're acutely aware of the reaction of a particular group of people, because it's like a wave.

I get an idea about something. I just start thinking about it, and then I get onstage and I talk about it, and then I think about it some more and talk about it some more, and think about it some more and talk about it some more, until it starts to take a shape.

If I was going onstage, of course I would talk about it. How could I not?

More live recording. I have missed the boat over my career by not doing every second or third CD live because things happen onstage that don't happen in the studio.

I think my perception of my own life is different and the fact that Lauren and myself are together. I've never felt this free or happy and so that permeates onto my onstage persona and to my working environment.

Onstage, I don't want to be thinking about my outfit, I want to think about what I'm doing, so I'll try to dress as comfortably as possible.

We usually surprised everyone, and still do, as we keep the craziness onstage.