The live setting is always better for me. I usually thrive at live. I feel like having a band behind me and being able to interact with the crowd helps boost my energy up.
I am the audience. I want to observe people. Even when I'm playing drums onstage, I'm watching people. I'm looking at them and their faces and their T-shirts and their signs. And travelling by motorcycle, especially, the world is just coming at me.
I don't think enough players channel the energy of the crowd. If it's done properly, and you don't let anger overwhelm and distract you, it's like a shot of adrenaline in the arm, and it gets the crowd pumped up.
WWE is a space where I thrived, and I loved, and I still do. I love connecting with an audience; that is the greatest thing about going back to WWE.
I saw B.B. King in concert one time where he had this guy that would bring him out a glass of water and towel to wipe his forehead with.
I have a huge fear of crowds. The irony is that my band is a therapeutic exercise. I hurl myself into thousands of people.
At its best, a live show is completely transcendent. The image I get is breaking through glass or shooting out into the free zone.
When I'm on stage, it's like a different world ... me connecting with the audience. It's a surreal experience.
When it's my show, I know that everybody is there to see me - but I like a challenge, and I like the fact that at festivals, not everybody is there to see me, but I have the chance to convert people.
I used to MC a bit when I was young - 14 or 15 years old.
I love for the crowd to feed off me, and I try to make my teammates feed off me.
The music comes alive when you actually perform it in front of a crowd.
I like to perform in front of an audience.
I own a '66 Jaguar. That's the guitar I polish, and baby - I refuse to let anyone touch it when I jump into the crowd.
When I am on the road and heading to my next venue, I think about my audience.
Whenever I come to Ireland, I end up just bantering with the crowd so the show will just be what it is.
I'm really only happy when I'm on stage. I just feed off the energy of the audience. That's what I'm all about - people and laughter.
This song is for the guy who keeps yelling from the balcony, and it's called 'We hate you, please die.'
When I'm doing a set as an artist I'm right in front of the stage the entire time, interacting with the crowd. The DJ set's a little different but they both are great and high energy for the crowd.
A lot of the younger kids now can rap, but they're scared of the crowd. Mastery of that stage is an MC. I don't know if you've seen any great MCs on stage but when you do it's like wow, this is more than the words to rhymes.
I like to say whatever comes to mind when I am in the ring and work off the reaction from the crowd.
If I live to be 90, and I'm planning to, I'll always love performing for a live audience.
I don't ever really plan my sets. I just get out there and feel the energy of the crowd.
Sometimes supporting is difficult because a lot of people go to a gig to see the main act and to have a beer and a chat with their mates, so a lot of the time, even if you were John Lennon, would not listen to you.
I really love live performing!
