Quotes About Expression

I feel like sometimes I get even more goofy onstage than I am offstage. I'm not trying to make the music less than what it is. Even if it's hard for me and I have to think about a lot of details, it's none of the audience's business. I don't want them to feel that I'm having a hard time.

As long as I don't go onstage completely normal and then jump into character onstage, I assume that most fans would be able to accept me as the creator. I can comment on the work the same way a director would on his movie.

The most amazing thing is being onstage and watching the audience sing every song lyric for lyric.

My intention of making acting a career was about being onstage.

Onstage, we're very dominant and aggressive. But we laugh and play a lot, too.

It's always been about the live show for us. We're having Halloween onstage every night.

Half the time, when I first run onstage, I can't look directly at the audience just because of self-consciousness. It's human nature. Sometimes you feel like the man, and sometimes you don't. But sometimes that self-conscious energy is good for the show, it draws people in more.

Onstage, there's no hiding; you either can or can't act. There's no second take.

I'm actually not an exhibitionist at all. When you get onstage and you get under the lights playing music, I feel more hidden and more alone than anywhere else. You hide behind your music and let your emotions come out through the music.

I get angry about stuff, I get very emotionally intense about stuff and that's how I get it out - with books, with the band, on my own onstage, but it's always kind of a wail.

If I was going onstage, of course I would talk about it. How could I not?

I consider myself something of a self-taught anthropologist. I try not to talk about something unless it's something I love. But if it's something that really annoys me, I fixate on it, learn something about it and then, when I'm onstage, it comes out.

Onstage, I find absolutely nothing but exhilaration in not talking.

As soon as my foot is in the light onstage, I am home. It is what I love to do. It is what I have always loved to do.

I've felt emotions onstage that I never felt before; it has strengthened me as a person and as an artist.

When I get onstage, I automatically feel beautiful.

I've always felt a spiritual connection with acting. And I felt whole when I was onstage.

I'm always trying out new stuff onstage. That's where I do all my writing.

I feel so much at home onstage and so comfortable in my body.

When I'm onstage, I'm not thinking about ideas. I'm not in my head at all. It's a more physical experience.

Plays are frequently infected with ideas that came from actors or even sound engineers. Some Shakespeare scholars wonder whether some of the Bard's lines came from onstage improvisations by actors.

When you get onstage, you can see everyone in the audience's face, down to the detail. You can see who may or may not be yawning.

I celebrate masculinity when I'm onstage.

Onstage, you can be anything you want to be. In concert, I might project a different side of myself, but I wouldn't do anything I'd be embarrassed of.