James Durbin Quotes

I don't feel nervous or fearful when I'm on stage.

I'm nervous the first few songs, and then I'm like, 'I got this audience. I'm ready!'

I can sing in front of people. I can go on a TV show, live, and not feel like I'm going to throw up.

Once I'm on stage, the energy of the crowd wipes my nerves away.

My first-night jitters are so bad, I can't even hold a tea cup, but once I am over that, I get really into it.

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

I can never remember being afraid of an audience. If the audience could do better, they'd be up here on stage and I'd be out there watching them.

Sometimes, the most daunting thing about performing is making eye contact with your audience, so just look above them and at the corners of the room. Soon, you'll totally forget they're there.

I'm hideously shy as myself, but on stage I can run around naked and bite the heads off fish.

I'm still finding my legs, performance-wise, being up there by myself. I think I have a bit of proving myself ahead of me.

I reached the stage where I was afraid to wiggle my leg, but then I thought 'why shouldn't I?' It's what I do and now I know how to turn an audience on again.

There's some anxiety the 30 minutes before the show starts. But once you step on stage and face the people, everything goes away, and you have fun and enjoy the audience.

I've never felt nervous in front of big crowds and in big stadiums.

Right before I go on stage, I'm absolutely terrified. My mind darts at many directions, but the center of me is going forward into the performance.

I'm not a natural born performer.

I'm nervous performing because it's such a weird thing to do, standing on stage demanding people's attention.

The stage always terrified me. The live audience is just one thing I bewilderingly look back on and say, 'How did I ever participate in that?'

Everyone will clearly be a bit nervous and scared before going onstage. But what I do is just remember that this is my passion. Once I get on the stage and see everyone smiling and looking at me, the joy that it brings to me makes me forget all about my nerves.

Every time I step onto the stage, it's not only proving to the audience that I'm capable but to myself.

I remember my first ever gig in town, I was very nervous. I had a big red shiny face. But that all disappeared after 30 seconds and I settled down and got a great lift from that.

I don't feel like I'm the type of performer who's going to knock your socks off. I'm trying to get over my nerves.

When I was on stage, I was like, 'This is alright. This is good.'

I finally felt that I came into my own when I went on the stage.

It feels like the more I'm out there in the public eye, the more criticism I get. You need to have confidence - that's what it takes to walk out there and sing a song in front of a huge group of people.

I always felt like my future was at stake every time I stepped on stage and that was kind of hair-raising. At some point I just went, don't be frightened, you can't do anything wrong, it's your show.