Mike Gordon Quotes

Performing live is easy in front of an audience.

Good evening everybody, my name is Robbie Williams, this is my band and for the next two hours YOUR ASS IS MINE!

I feel like I own the stage.

The most satisfaction I get is from doing a good gig, which really makes you feel in control. If you've worked a room really well, it makes you feel great. TV is a bit more difficult; there are more factors that can screw it up along the way.

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.

Performing live in front of an audience is such a matter of will - all of those things you can do just fine in your basement, suddenly you have to do them in front of hundreds or thousands of people, and it becomes a different matter entirely.

Playing in front of people is a lot different from playing in your room.

I still enjoy performing, whether it's in front of two people or 2,000 people, but it's not fun once you leave the big show.

My opening acts are always really strong because I need a guy who can take on a big, big crowd. Which is not that easy to do.

Doing my Broadway show '700 Sundays' reminded me how much I love working in front of an audience.

Nothing is real until you walk out on stage.

I love the stage - the fact that you only have one take to get it right, the interaction with the audience, and how every show is different even though you're doing the same thing.

I love interacting with an audience. I love just being myself in front of a crowd.

If you now have 20 previews, you will regard 19 of them as super-rehearsals, which is fine, except you are being watched by thousands. I remember suggesting on more than one show over the years, 'Let's not have any previews.' But no one agreed with me. If you could do that, however, it would be a great gimmick - no previews, just opening night.

I'm always going to need to play in front of people.

Obviously nobody likes it when you walk offstage, including your band.

I think that no number of rehearsals can guarantee the outcome of a live show.

The adrenaline of performing live in front of an audience is a feeling that's hard to replicate.

Well, it's really gratifying to me to have a stage and some bright lights and a microphone. They're tools and opportunities, and to be able to just pull somebody up on stage with me and point at them is a great feeling.

I love performing live: it's my very favorite thing to do.

There's nothing more vulnerable than just standing in front of a thousand people, or ten thousand people, and doing your best to entertain them, touch them in some way.

There's a side to being in a band that some people embrace and some don't: the fact that you're performing and you care about how it comes across.

There's always going to be pressure on your place. It's 11 cricketers. There's always going to be other cricketers outside the team doing well.

You can kind of run drills and practice, rehab behind closed doors as much as you can, but there's nothing that simulates being in front of a live audience with live TV cameras.

Obviously we're not Kiss, but we go out there and jump around like idiots and try to have a good time and entertain people.