Tove Lo Quotes

Feeling emotionally connected to a song, and accumulating every bit of the moment's energy to sing out to the audience is what I believe makes a great performer.

I just feed off the energy of the audience.

I love the intimacy of venues like the House of Blues. When everyone is packed in and so close to you, it makes you play differently. It's so much more fun to play because there's so much more high energy in a place like that.

The difference between a theatre with and without an audience is enormous. There is a palpable, critical energy created by the presence of the audience.

I tend to like the heavier things, especially live on stage. I need that energy and interaction and feeling the audience.

I feed off the audience a lot, their energy.

If you're in the groove, you get something back from the audience that is so exciting and rewarding that no film or television work can possibly compete.

With Dream Theater live, I may have been a bit of a focal point because I absolutely live for the energy on stage, and having interaction with the audience is absolutely crucial to me - regardless of how some others have described it!

Standup is more me talking the entire time. There's definitely an exchange of energy because that room, that audience, is giving back.

It's so much better for me to do a talk show. You still have that energy of the audience, and the audience is just as important as that guest that's sitting next to me. It's not about me and that guest exchanging energy and talking. It's about everything that's going on in that room, and they're as much a part of the show as anything. I like this better than anything I've ever done.

I can't imagine playing a boring gig. Like, a boring audience without reaction, I will play against them.

Being onstage is just a feeling that you cannot duplicate anywhere else because the energy that the audience is giving you forces you to give more energy. It's such an output and exchange of energy. You can't do that anywhere else.

When playing any song in front of an audience, you're watching them experience it, and it changes. In a lot of ways, it's almost like the music is just the background buzz to what's happening between you and the audience in the room.

There's nothing like walking out and watching the people get turned on. Nothing in the world could replace it.

When you're on stage you have a very strange knowledge of what the audience is. It isn't exactly a sound - it's a hum, like the streets.

On stage, we just want to generate hysteria. We don't care about looking cool or posing.

When you are in the studio, you don't have anybody to feed off of; meanwhile, when you are playing live, you interact with people and you feel the energy in the room. When the crowd is going crazy, that definitely impacts your vocal performance. I prefer to sing live.

Music is so much fun because each song is like a film in itself. You get to go from beginning to end and interact and exchange energy with a live audience.

My live performance, it just comes from feeling an energy and emotion from the crowd.

When I am performing live, I walk into a room, and I just try to get a feel for the vibe, and I am coming from different angles musically. I might come with a new song, I might come with some hip-hop, with some R&B. Once I find my way, then I am hitting you, and hitting you all night.

Performing music live, there's a certain magic to it.

You can feel how the audiences react. For us, it's about the performance and the reaction. We feed off the energy. And no matter how enthusiastic they are, we can tell if we're playing well or not.

Performing in front of an audience gives you an extra ten per cent energy and the chance to react to the instant feedback.

I like that raw energy that I get from an audience.

Performing live is a part of who I am.