Kurt Vile Quotes

I get nervous when I don't get nervous. If I'm nervous I know I'm going to have a good show.

I used to get nervous about three weeks before a gig... now I've managed to condense it down to a manageable ten minutes.

My nerves before a gig got worse; I had terrible bad nerves all the time. Once we started... I was fine.

I have to be careful what I eat before going onstage, to avoid an upset stomach.

And when I perform on my own tour, I have to talk myself into going out on that stage every single night.

As for the stage fright, it never goes away. When I'm waiting in the wings to go on, it's agony every single time but I stay focused and I know that once I'm on stage it'll be fine; I'll be in my happy little bubble.

I normally feel relief that I didn't die onstage or forget all my lines. Then I start remembering that I have to do it again sometime, and it'll probably not go as well.

I get extremely nervous before performances. I pray and try to look at it as, 'I'll go out there and have fun,' but it's very nerve-wracking for me. I don't think that will ever change.

I love getting ready to do a scene, and thinking about it, and talking about it. But the rest of the time, I'm so nervous and obsessed. I'm just tearing my hair out in the trailer. The whole time I'm really tense.

I used to psych myself up before the show and now I do the complete opposite: I psych myself down. It's 12:30 at night, you don't want some guy yelling at you. You want some guy just talking to you.

If I have a gig in the evening, I get 'the doom' at about 5 P.M., when I think I'm getting flu.

I remember playing the Royal Albert Hall, and a guy would say, 'Ten minutes to stage time,' and I'd get so nervous.

When some people get parts, they feel they can now relax, but for me it was always the opposite. Sometimes before I do a movie or before I act out a scene, I may not sleep well the night before. If I don't know what the scene is about, I might get all worked up.

I go through insanity before a show. It's not really a process but it's like absolute mortal fear.

I tend to do yoga before I go on stage, so that keeps me nice and calm.

Yup, the toilet is my best friend before a show.

Right before I go on stage, I'm absolutely terrified. My mind darts at many directions, but the center of me is going forward into the performance.

I still do get a little bit nervous at the beginning of Maiden tours but that's mainly because of the new material.

The performance anxiety I had is still there. I've been given different kinds of tools and learned how to manage it.

I always get nervous before a gig, so I look over my writing, trying not to fantasise about all the things that could go horribly wrong.

I will say that, I, being a Jew, experience unease before I go onstage; and after I go onstage, and in general. But luckily the forty-five minutes to an hour that I'm onstage I usually forget everything else and I just press play.

I used to get the most anxiety before shows because I really was never prepared.

I feel nervous before performing in live concerts, but it does not last more than five minutes.

It's good to have butterflies. And they always go away. The camera starts rolling and they go away and it's all good.

I had panic attacks during rehearsal. There were times when I really thought I wasn't going to be able to do it.