Performance High Quotes

It's hard to beat the visceral high of playing live and creating something spontaneous.

When I'm on stage, it's like a different world ... me connecting with the audience. It's a surreal experience.

My personality just steps away, and I'm in direct connection when I'm on stage.

When I go onstage and am performing the way I want to... I finally feel like myself.

It doesn't matter how tired I am; I will always still be happy. As soon as you go onstage, you get adrenaline. You hear the crowd: they're screaming your name. They have posters. The energy gives you energy.

I don't really unwind after a performance. I'm still pumped up and just want to get back on stage.

You know, when you really connect with the instrument and everything just comes out on an emotional level very naturally through your playing. That's, you know, a great night. And I think the reason I love touring so much is you're chasing that high around all the time, trying to have another good night.

I get my most creative sort of energy after a show. So I love to go back to the hotel and compose new material. Generally in a rush, exactly. I have to get it out somehow, otherwise I can't sleep, you know.

I played my first show when I was 17, and that was a big moment. I realized it was something I could keep doing.

When you look into the eyes of your people out there that came to see you, that's when it's like, 'Yep, this is what it's all about.' This is why we don't sleep, and this is why we write songs and try to be the best. This moment right here onstage.

When you're on stage, the real world just drops away for that time. It's pretty intense.

You don't realize how much you miss it until you get back onstage and feel that buzz.

The adrenaline of performing on stage to a crowd - there's nothing like it.

Before I do a play I say that I hope it's going to be for as short a time as possible but, once you do it, it is a paradoxical pleasure. One evening out of two there are five minutes of a miracle and for those five minutes you want to do it again and again. It's like a drug.

From day one, I got addicted to being on stage and getting the applause and laughter.

The thrill of performing - that's something that hasn't changed for me. That simultaneous joy of creating something and sharing it with an audience - it's the same now as it was then, when it was just my cousins' birthday party.

When you get the rush of live performing, it's hard to give that up.

I told a joke and people laughed and it was the best feeling. I knew I wanted to do this as a career. I never knew I could get such a high from telling a joke. There's something so extraordinary about having people listening to you and hanging onto your words - it's a great feeling.

When you have had the high of being on stage, especially in a band like ourselves, I can't help but search for that buzz.

I've been on the road since I was 15, in one way or another - on a bus, in a 15-passenger van, pulling a U-haul - so I would be lying if I said sometimes the miles and the road didn't get long. But it's always rewarding, that hour and a half every night you get to stand up there and see it all pay off and feel the love from that crowd.

When I have a good performance, I'm wrecked at the end of it. I feel completely empty, and tears are pouring down my face - I'm just gone.

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

When I'm on stage the savage in me is released. It's like going back to being a cave man. It takes me six hours to come down after a show.

When I'm on stage, I feel alive. It's the most rewarding feeling an actor can live.

When I perform live, I'm doing a lot, but I kind of black out. I don't think about it too much.