Performance Preference Quotes

I like the dirty venues better - Brixton Jams is like home.

I never had the desire to get in front of the camera. It never occurred to me! I always thought I'd be a theater actor.

I'd much rather be playing songs than talking to people.

I only like the live audience. I don't even like to do standup where it's being filmed. Because it affects the way the audience responds to what you say, because it makes them uncomfortable. You have to perform in a light room, and I prefer a dark room. But I love to perform, and I don't really see myself doing any television at all.

I tour more than I need to, more than is good for you. But it's my favorite part of music. I much prefer it to studio work.

Broadway musicals, where you sing the whole time, I really don't like; I like alternating dialogue and music.

It's nice to be in a smaller room. I like the big arenas as well, but at my core, I'm a live performer, so it's nice to be able to feel the warmth of everybody in the room.

I've been a live performer longer than I've been a television performer. For me, live is where it's at.

In general, no engineer hates higher performance.

I've been on stage since I was 7. That's where I'd rather be than anywhere else. Just because you can do a bunch of things doesn't mean you are a bunch of things. I can act. I can sing. But I am a dancer.

People ask me all the time, 'Why don't don't you ever do drum clinics?' And my reply is always that I like playing music; I want to play with a band.

I love the stage more than the studio.

Unfortunately, most of the songs that I write I don't write them with guitar in mind. I just write it as a song and that was probably one of the ones that left an opening for it. The song's all right, I wouldn't choose to sing it now.

I don't miss television. It's too much hurry up and sit around, wait till they do this and do that, and get the lighting just right. I'd much rather go out on a stage anywhere and just play and sing for an hour.

I don't think musicals are my thing. I'm not a big fan. Definitely have to get on the stage and do something like a straight play.

I love the theater, but if I had to choose, I would choose a film at this time in my life. Something meaty, to sink my teeth into.

My desire was never to put out albums; it was to do musical theatre!

I feel like once you go with a band, it's hard to go back. I just don't see myself performing without a band.

I grew up in music theater playing to the audience - singing and dancing and showing off. That's really my background. But the camera's different. I think I'm more at home on stage.

I was trained on the stage, and I can do stage as well as I can do movies, but I prefer films.

I enjoy some nights in the studio. I'm not the greatest person in an enclosed space; I'm a live player by birth - like a gypsy folk player, I just sit in the corner and play.

I guess I prefer to play live, but I don't want to have only live CDs. I like playing live because there are alot of things that can happen. I can interact with the audience and say some things to get me in trouble. On the other hand, the studio is nice because you can really take your time and make something that you know is the best thing that you can ever do. But nothing beats being up on stage in front of all that energy.

I love doing the in-ring promos more than doing the backstage promos because I love being able to interact with the crowd.

I love playing live; that's the main thing. But I hate being in the studio. It's the most boring thing ever.

I'm much more comfortable and confident running out on the field in front of 70,000 people instead of standing in front of a camera trying to say some lines. The people who do that as a profession are very talented because it's certainly not easy.