Jake Gyllenhaal Quotes

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.

There's a pressure regardless of that to do a good show.

I've always felt kind of safe on stage, protected. I've talked to other performers about this and they feel the same things, particularly in the live arena. I never get nervous going on stage to do a play. Doing film or television I'll have more butterflies.

I get really nervous right before I go on stage. But once I'm performing, I always love it. It's like being in a different world.

I don't have the temperament of a performer, and I certainly couldn't do it every night.

I think on a stage in front of thousands of people is a wildly invigorating and amazing experience, and it requires a certain skill set; then being in the studio, and being curled up in the fetal position under the piano, that requires another skill set.

People are used to us being onstage for a while.

The reason I don't tour is that I don't know how to front a band. What would I do? I can't really play anything well enough to deal with that situation.

Once I get out onstage, it's the same sort of basic production that it is anywhere else. But I might be a little bit aware that there might be people I know out there, who wondered where I was.

I made a few records here and there by default, but I wasn't ever comfortable in that role. I wasn't comfortable on stage. We'll see how it goes this time.

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

There's some anxiety the 30 minutes before the show starts. But once you step on stage and face the people, everything goes away, and you have fun and enjoy the audience.

Performing in front of a live audience can be pretty intimidating, so having a full head of hair was important to me.

I know what it feels like to walk out in front of a sold-out crowd of a thousand people that are there for you, and how good that feels, but as an opener, you just have to train yourself to think that it's going to be harder.

Reading a piece of poetry with no beat in front of 20 people is way more challenging than rocking for 10,000 people.

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 one thing to practise in front of a mirror at home, but another to do it in front of 800 people or on live TV.

Not playing off of an audience is very challenging.

I would want to start. I want to run out there in front of 20,000 people and get my name announced. I get it. I get that.

I feel like it's harder to perform in front of a smaller crowd sometimes still than it is a larger crowd.

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

Even when you're right in the middle of a tour and you've done 30 or 40 shows, you still get them butterflies in the stomach right before you go on stage.

It used to be enough for me to get on stage and sing. I kind of crave the performance part now. I write knowing it's going to happen, which I didn't do before.

Some people can sit down and write a song, but they can't go on stage like I can.

I think the fear of humiliating yourself on stage always motivates me to give at least 90 percent. I've definitely been guilty of leaning on the mic stand, but you can only do that so long before you're like, "Jesus, I'm bombing." The fact that people pay to come see me, that's really just out the window.