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You can't drink on an eight hour flight, pass out, and then go onstage... well you can, but then you're Spandau Ballet.
I've figured out what to do with my hands... onstage. I'm a percussion player, so I grab a tambourine as much as I can.
I love theatrics and have a huge imagination: Why would I want to sit onstage and sing a bunch of ballads back-to-back?
I'm the most awkward person in the world, but onstage, I'm completely fine. I could run around in a thong and not care.
It's not until you develop your own voice, your own persona onstage that you become your own comic, who you really are.
I really don't think of myself as a singer. I think of myself as an entertainer, and the best place I do it is onstage.
To be able to be at the level that I perform onstage, I have to embody everything I've made my music about. Which is me.
Singing is about telling a story. When you are onstage, you get to be your own self... When acting, you're someone else.
There's a character that I play onstage, and I can't let him loose in the supermarket when I'm buying my beans on toast.
A fantasy of mine is being pulled up onstage by one of my favorite bands and singing or playing an instrument with them.
I laugh all the time - at things, people, stuff, whatever. But, I don't laugh onstage because then it's serious business.
For some reason, people don't want to see a girl onstage. Whether it's a girl or a guy, if you like the music, who cares?
My style offstage is so different from onstage. I love a pair of sexy heels with jeans, a nice jacket, or a little dress.
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.
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.
I'm too nervous to eat before I go onstage, and I'll usually eat out after the performance or when I get home at midnight.
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.
In film, you're always using your tools, your body, your voice, your emotions, but onstage, you use them in a different way.
I try to avoid gaining weight as much as possible because it hinders my performance onstage. Touring demands so much energy.
I have made stage adjustments which allow me to hear myself better onstage so that has made playing live much more enjoyable.
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 do secret stand-up shows around New York. I announce and tweet this to nobody - I get onstage and I do a quick five minutes.
Onstage, I channel my inner goddess. Everyday Jillian is definitely more low-key: jeans and a crop top with a sneaker or boot.
I saw the Beatles play the Cavern in Liverpool when I was 16. They had attitude: Onstage, they were like a four-headed monster.
I couldn't be touring unless my husband was on the road with me, taking care of our son while I'm onstage and doing interviews.
I remember being onstage once when I didn't have fear: I got so scared I didn't have fear that it brought on an anxiety attack.
'You Can't Take It With You' has eighteen people onstage at one point. Musicals entail a larger collaboration, and I love that.
Well, in the theater, I think you're actually more responsible for what is going on onstage as a director than you are in film.
Thirty minutes onstage for me is literally a full day's work. So I make sure I eat right and I make sure I keep my energy high.
From day one, we always admired male R&B groups. They would go onstage with no shirt on and baggy jeans, and girls would scream.
I love being onstage. I love the relationship with the audience. I love the letting go, the sense of discovery, the improvising.
I learned my profession onstage. I didn't have a musical background. I had no conservatory training. I don't play an instrument.
Just me onstage with a mike having an intimate relationship with the audience. I don't get nervous for that. I just get excited.
If you can't imagine female torch singers and Skrillex-style demon techno onstage at the same moment, you don't know Eurovision.
You want to have butterflies in your stomach, because if you don't, if you walk out onstage complacent, that's not a good thing.
I don't care about the gold records and all of that stuff. I care about what we do onstage, and the joy that we bring to people.
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 get onstage, you can see everyone in the audience's face, down to the detail. You can see who may or may not be yawning.
Being onstage and communicating with an audience was part of my life since I was very little, but I was never pushed into singing.
Going onstage is like going into battle. You're ultimately there to win. It's driven and fuelled by passion and a desire to do it.
I was onstage singing with Luke Bryan, and he started singing a song that we hadn't rehearsed. Both Luke and myself just winged it.
There is a big difference between what I do onstage and what I do in my private life. I don't put my living room on magazine pages.
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 love to sing and I really love to write, but in terms of being onstage, I'm not that comfortable, which I think is sort of clear.
The stuff I do and say onstage I can do easily. As a performer, that comes easily. But being social offstage, it's not easy for me.
What I learned is that acting is to a large extent about trying to stave off self-doubt long enough to be natural and real onstage.
I don't believe you should stay onstage until people are begging you to get off. I like the idea of leaving them wanting a bit more.
I don't wear a wig. I'd feel terrible onstage with a wig. I hate to be so 'Actors Studio'-ish, but I like to feel it's me out there.
Whatever I talk about onstage is just my story. My fan base is broad... We all have the same mom; it's just that ours has an accent.
You can do stuff onstage that you can't do offstage. You can be angry as hell and enraged and get away with it onstage, but not off.