Performance Anxiety Disorder Quotes

Now, performing is second nature and I love every second of it. It is a very emotional thing when I can't play a song; maybe I'm hitting on something that I don't want to deal with. All of it is so personal. It is like therapy.

I've never liked rehearsing too much.

I have been nervous before, but I have never had stage fright.

Sometimes when I perform, and it's obvious the audience is just there to party, or if I feel a wall between me and the audience, I get existential about it.

I love to play. When I'm off, I feel a little lost - like, shouldn't I be on stage somewhere?

I think when I start thinking about results, I stop playing the right way because I start getting too nervous.

I stand on stage hoping to give good energy to the audience, but if I cannot give good energy anymore, I will have to leave right away.

Being the headliner is only more pressure if you're not very good.

When I begin shooting, I get nervous, as I am under pressure to do my job well.

You can have all the experience in the world and come out and not play well.

My stage fright gets worse at every performance. During the overture I hope for a theater fire, typhoon, revolution in the Pentagon.

I love to dance. But I don't like being up in front of tons of people. I didn't have that in me to do it, the desire to be performing in front of a lot of people. If there's a lot of people on a set, I get nervous. So music just wasn't something I ever seriously considered.

This accident, or incident, happened in the most secure place I could have felt I was in: Walking onstage with my guitar, you know?

I can't perform without the mask or be seen without it on stage, or else it'll distract from the whole persona.

I don't have a great talent for explaining myself in acting because I can't explain it.