Bjorn Ulvaeus Quotes

If I have a gig in the evening, I get 'the doom' at about 5 P.M., when I think I'm getting flu.

The night before a show, I don't sleep. Really. I've been doing this for 30 years, and the night before a show, I still don't sleep.

I had gigged so much from the age of 11 to 20 that I got to a stage where I actually got less nervous the bigger the gig. But you need those butterflies: they make you feel alive.

Sometimes I might be sleepy, and sometimes I've literally been sleeping backstage, woken up, gone straight on stage or gone crazy. It's not like I psyche myself; I don't do any of that.

I love to be nervous before a scene.

You want to have butterflies in your stomach, because if you don't, if you walk out onstage complacent, that's not a good thing.

I'm too nervous to eat before I go onstage, and I'll usually eat out after the performance or when I get home at midnight.

No matter how many shows I've done, as soon as they say it's time to start, I get that nervous sensation and feel like I have to pee. So that's where my mind is. That and making it to the end of the runway and back as fast as I can.

I remember playing the Royal Albert Hall, and a guy would say, 'Ten minutes to stage time,' and I'd get so nervous.

I go through insanity before a show. It's not really a process but it's like absolute mortal fear.

Before every performance, I think I am about to keel over.

I tend to do yoga before I go on stage, so that keeps me nice and calm.

Yup, the toilet is my best friend before a show.

My nerves before a gig got worse; I had terrible bad nerves all the time. Once we started... I was fine.

I get nervous playing the Opry still. You take that nervous energy and channel it into being amped.

Before the show, we see all these radio people, and most of them say, 'Garth, you're a lot calmer than I thought you were gonna be.' But when the members of the band give one another that handshake, and the lights go out, and the crowd goes up, then you're sliding into the elevator, man, your heart is just going bopbopbopbopbop.

Every time before I go on stage, I'm nervous.

I get kinda nervous before every show.

I get a bit nervous because I just want the show to go well. I think you always have to be a little bit nervous, or else you're a little checked-out, and that's maybe the time when you're not doing your best stuff, because you're kind of just checked-out and falling back on stuff.

For me, before I go on stage, it all depends. Might be a girl, might be an edible, might be a verse, might be somebody mixing something in my drink without me knowing - hopefully that won't happen tonight.

I have to be careful what I eat before going onstage, to avoid an upset stomach.

The first time I performed musically, I threw up.

And when I perform on my own tour, I have to talk myself into going out on that stage every single night.

As for the stage fright, it never goes away. When I'm waiting in the wings to go on, it's agony every single time but I stay focused and I know that once I'm on stage it'll be fine; I'll be in my happy little bubble.

I get so nervous before I go onstage - beyond butterflies!