Performance Quotes

“You can't do your best when you're doubting yourself.”

“To be a character who is larger than life is to be an actor.”

“Playing live is the ultimate test. It's where you connect with the audience.”

“Approach the game with no preset agendas and you'll probably come away surprised at your overall efforts.”

“When we started I was so shy. I wouldn't even turn to face the audience, I'd just be looking at the floor, you know?”

“The simplest way to describe the national character is to say that the Italians are a nation of actors.”

“I've always been a player who's done his talking on the pitch.”

“When you hear music, after it's over, it's gone in the air. You can never capture it again.”

“The worst thing you can do to a piece of music is to be reverential to it.”

“I've always tried to be an entertainer first and a singer second.”

“You have to be a little bit of a showman. You can't just stand there and play.”

“When you're in a Formula One car, you're always on the limit.”

“When I'm on stage, I'm a different person. I'm an entertainer.”

“The trouble with Freud is that he never played the Glasgow Empire on a Saturday night.”

“I am a real ham. I love an audience. I work better with an audience. I am dead, in fact, without one.”

“My thing is to be a part of the music, to be in the moment.”

“Being on stage is a huge adrenaline rush.”

“You are absolutely deluded, if you think that threads do anything to speed you up. They only slow you down.”

“I'm interested in the language of the body as a way of creating a narrative.”

“You have to remember that when you are a performer you are playing a role.”