Tech N9ne Quotes

When I rap, I get to express myself in a way where putting words together is like poetry, and sometimes it's better to talk in certain expressions than sing, you know? So I love, I love to rhyme when I want to express certain things.

Getting up in front of an audience is my biggest motivation.

I used to be afraid of looking at the audience.

I love performing, and I love being in front of people. I love the pressure you get and the pleasure performing brings.

Strangely enough I'm better on a stage. I love that I feel like I blossom in front of a whole bunch of people.

I don't think that just because you go on stage you are an exhibitionist.

I was always an exhibitionist. I liked it when everyone laughed. But I didn't do plays in high school. I was too nervous.

I didn't start singing until I was 16. I was afraid to sing in front of people.

I always said put me in front of 40 or 50,000 people and play hockey, I'm comfortable there. Put me in front of 50 people to talk or get in front of, and that's where I'm probably the least comfortable.

An 'OMG' of mine would probably be speaking on stage and performing in front of thousands of people!

And I began to tell little anecdotes that had happened to me, and people would laugh. And I began to like that, you know. But I knew that, 'cause I'd do that in school, but I wouldn't do it out there in front of all them people.

I love being onstage and I love to perform. To be honest with you, I'm more comfortable performing than I am in an everyday situation, which I can't quite explain.

In high school, I was too shy to perform. It's one thing to get laughs from your family, to be funny at parties and in class. It's another thing to get up on the stage.

I've never felt nervous in front of big crowds and in big stadiums.

I never got nervous performing my own material.

I didn't grow up jumping in front of the class and performing, but I definitely had a hunger to be creative.

Stand-up. It's the only place I'm comfortable.

I can't remember if I had any stage fright at the first Bowl. But I did the second time.

Most people's fear of being in front of an audience can generally be conquered by being completely on top of what it is they've got to do.

I attended speech and drama classes with a nun to help me gain confidence in speaking without my face turning red each time.

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.

Playing in front of a crowd is something you learn. You accept it and then you start to relish it.

I was always really shy. That's why being in front of cameras like this is uncomfortable. I found that when I was a kid, I would hide behind playing pretend. That's when I would come out of my shell. I would dress up as an old man or something and go out onto the street with my mom. I would come out of my shell that way. So I ended up stumbling into acting. It was the one thing that I found a passion for.

A poet who reads his verse in public may have other nasty habits.

When you go on the stage before thousands of people, you can be excited and nervous, but it's not fear.