Sophie B. Hawkins Quotes

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.

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.

Those shows I did with Queen were pretty surreal. I was really excited and super-flattered, but intimidated at the same time.

I don't get stage fright, I actually love the energy, I love the spontaneity, I love the adrenaline you get in front of a live audience, it actually really works for me.

Performing is an experience, for me, that is as humbling as it is energizing.

I don't know if it's a blessing or a curse, but every time I show up on set it still feels like the first time.

It's the adrenaline rush you only get from being in front of an audience. It's addictive.

I know really, really famous people who are terrified every time they walk on to a stage.

It's thrilling to be onstage and to not know, literally, what the next moment is going to bring. To just submit to the not-knowing-ness of it.

When I got on stage, I would have a rush of adrenaline; everybody gets it. Normally after the first night it becomes more controllable, and as long as I could ride the wave, I was still in charge.

There is no buzz like performing for a live audience.

There's such an adrenaline rush for me on stage and having all these people look at you. There's an adrenaline rush from not having things written down, too.

It's so liberating to play a song in front of 50,000 people that you've never played before. Not something you played a long time ago and have forgotten: Never. Played. Before. There's something magical about it.

Every time you go up to the board, you get scared. It's more like adrenaline, though - you feel pumped and ready to go.

I get scared to death every time I have to play. I always get nervous because you never know what to expect. The crowd could be awful, or it could be amazing. You just never know what you're going to get until you get out there and do it. I just do my best and have fun.

You'd think after 100 shows you'd be used to this, but it's not true for me. It always feels like the first show.

I always have gotten nervous before every show. But the second I step onstage, it's all gone. It's sort of like an adrenaline rush for me.

Every time you get in front of the lights and the cameras and you think, 'Okay, well, we've done this before, but we have to do it again? Oh, we're doing it again? We're doing it again?' It's so gratifying, but I don't think I'll ever get used to it. I hope I won't.

When I go out on the runway, I can feel the audience vibrate.

When you go live, anything can happen. It excites me because it means I have to be on. When the camera's on, whatever happens happens.

I'd love to give my music to someone who really likes to wow the crowd. I feel like half the time I just want to hide in the dressing room!

I get nervous every time, for every single performance, before getting up on that stage.

I love to be nervous before a scene.

The first time I performed musically, I threw up.

I don't enjoy public performances and being up on a stage. I don't enjoy the glamour. Like tonight, I am up on stage and my feet hurt.