Katie Melua Quotes

I'd love to give my music to someone who really likes to wow the crowd. I feel like half the time I just want to hide in the dressing room!

I get a little teary on stage sometimes. It can be really emotional when it dawns on you that people are singing along and having fun.

I always imagined having so much energy on stage, versus me being somewhat chill, soulful R&B.

I've got a bad rap for not being more charismatic between songs.

I learned all I have to do is sing the best music I know how and put on the best show I know how and just relax with it and people enjoy it.

Plus, you know, when I was young, there was a lot of respect for clowning in rock music - look at Little Richard. It was a part of the whole thing, and I always also believed that it released the audience.

Some of my fans want me to just dance and go crazy and wear flashy outfits.

But I was singing loud, and most singers weren't singing loud.

When I'm gigging, there's an uneasy shift when I pull a puppet out. People look at me aghast and I feel I have about 20 seconds to win them over. You even get the prejudice among other people in your own profession.

If you can handle a nightclub audience successfully, you can handle anything.

I remember seeing McCoy Tyner in concert, and thinking that the music was incredible, but wanting to be invited in. I figured that humor was the way of letting the audience in. I've gotten a hard time about it, but I love to be funny onstage.

I don't really move onstage; all I do is just gradually hunch more and more and jut out at the people in the front row.

Playing live is basically just hyperactivity and a certain sense of enchantment that I deliver to the audience, to let them know what it would be like to be inside my head.

I'm very proud of my records, but my most natural creative tendencies have been in live performing. There's a beautiful element to recording and making records, but I've always felt a little shy with it.

I don't do anything specific for the stage. I'm just myself. I can't stand still for five seconds. I'm normally quite active, so that just comes out on stage. If I see people react to me and my music, I just have to give back and express myself.

I like to talk while I'm on stage. It makes the show more personal. With that said, it's got to stay within reason or it's annoying.

I'm like a big 10-year-old when I'm on stage. I just go up there and do whatever I think is cool at the moment.

I have fun on stage, so people think maybe they should, too.

I think every film actor secretly wants to be a rock star as well; just that part of the job which requires the extrovert in you. Even if you've become an actor because it's your way of hiding in plain sight, there's still part of you which has that craving.

I am always excited about playing in front of live audiences because I really enjoy it, for the most part.

I did feel from day one that I was a born performer.

I have so much fun on stage that I should have to pay to get in.

I'm a natural ham. It doesn't bother me to perform.

I began to work the stage and get the audience into it. I also learned how to have fun out there. It is something I will never forget.

I've done a lot of stage in my life, but I never had to dominate a stage for three hours.