Christine McVie Quotes

I don't really feel any different when I get up on stage.

I've always thought of myself as so unsuited to be a frontman.

To be an entertainer, you gotta be a little gutsy, a little egotistical, so you have to pull back sometimes when people say, 'Well, he's stuck-up.' 'Stuck-up' is only another word for self-conscious.

You know, when Michael Jackson does the moonwalk, he's showing off! When Prince or Hendrix do a guitar solo, it's confidence! I would hate to be at a show and some nervous wreck is sweating up there and doesn't feel like he deserves to be there.

I think generally playing live is a crap idea. So much of stage work is the presentation of personality, and I've never been interested in that.

I feel like I own the stage.

The minute you step onstage, you get eight feet taller.

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

I did feel from day one that I was a born performer.

By the time I was five, I was a little diva.

See, I don't know nothing about singing. I never wanted to be a frontman. Frontmen had big egos and was always crazy and aggravating. I just never thought that was a good idea.

I guess I'm a born ham.

I don't have any rock star demeanor to me. I just can't pull that off.

Inherently, I'm not a huge extrovert, so I actually find interviews and all the glamour to be a bit challenging sometimes.

When I'm on stage, that's me. It's blown up, but that's me.

Every actor-performer says this, and it sounds so irritating, but I'm not the most outgoing person.

I think I should get a bigger between-the-song persona, so then I'm not wandering around the stage like some mad old auntie that's saying hello to people and falling over.

People might think I'm a bit more intimidating than I am.

I'm always a different person when I get up and perform because then I don't have to be nervous. I don't have to be myself.

Can I be a leading man? I don't believe myself to be; I don't think that I am, but I'm in this place as a performer where I think about how to make things smaller, more subtle.

I guess nobody can teach you the knack, or whatever it is, that helps you come to life on stage.

I would rather impress you with my storytelling than with the size of my waist and my hips.

I'm a different guy on stage.

One think that you notice about anyone that gets up on stage is that they don't really have a lot of self-awareness. It's kind of a trait that performers don't have because you just kinda just have to let go and do whatever you want to do on stage.

I never wanted to perform and never proclaimed myself to be a performer.