Mike Joyce Quotes

The night before a show, I don't sleep. Really. I've been doing this for 30 years, and the night before a show, I still don't sleep.

I get kinda nervous before every show.

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'm always nervous before playing a gig, to tell you the truth. It's what nearly did me in when I was with the Libertines. I just couldn't handle it.

The first time I performed musically, I threw up.

I haven't been really nervous about a gig in a long time.

I still get really nervous, though, before each performance. It kind of hits about 15 minutes before we go onstage - sometimes I don't even want to go on. But once I'm onstage I'm fine.

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

I'm nervous before all shows.

If I'm playing music in front of people, I'll lose days to nerves like really wasted days of just like being terrified. And then when I get out there, generally speaking, I enjoy it very much. But it seems to be I have to accept the fact that that's just part of the deal for me. And I can't just run on and do it.

But even so, I still get nervous before I go onstage.

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

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

All these years later, I have almost no memory of the shows themselves. It's a blur. I remember my jogging runs better - that was my way of getting my energy together. I used to try to get to the arena as late as possible; otherwise, I'd just be pacing around, waiting to go on.

In 2004, I went onstage for the first time. They put a mike in my hand and pushed me out the door into the crowd. I did the three songs I had recorded and got out. It was the worst day of my life.

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

I get so nervous before I go onstage - beyond butterflies!

Every time I went on stage I was so terrified I almost threw up.

No, because I was always nervous about being onstage.

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

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.

It's so scary to go on stage. I used to throw up before I went on stage, every time.

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

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.

I get more anxious than nervous before a concert.