Anthony Gonzalez Quotes

I'm actually sometimes nervous right before a performance, but as soon as I'm on the stage I'm like, 'okay, we're gonna rock this baby.'

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.

People don't know what it's like standing up there onstage, when you have a wall of people smiling at you.

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.

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.

When I first played live, I would shake with fear, and my voice would tremble. But I do it for the love of it. There's nothing I love more than playing live.

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.

I think I've always been fine on stage - though I get nervous beforehand. But once I'm on stage, all of that goes out of the window.

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

When I'm on stage, all is right with the world.

When I was five or six, I asked to sing at a big family party, and ever since I got up there in front of everyone in my suit - it had a blue collar, like in 'Scarface' - I had the bug.

There's such an adrenaline rush for me on stage and having all these people look at you. There's an adrenaline rush from not having things written down, too.

The second I got on stage, it was like, 'Oh my God! I love this! I love this!'

The first time I was onstage, I felt like the audience was breathing with me. I don't know if I was good or not; I just knew I was having a ball, and for the first time, I felt I belonged somewhere.

I always have gotten nervous before every show. But the second I step onstage, it's all gone. It's sort of like an adrenaline rush for me.

Playing in front of a crowd is something you learn. You accept it and then you start to relish it.

Very few people know what it's like being onstage looking out at a sea of bodies.

I used to get butterflies. Now we're always ready to hit the stage and rock out.

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.

If you're up there [on stage] thinking about what you're doing, you're just not there and it's not going to happen.So trying to learn how to overcome those - which is a normal thing to do. You're in front of a lot of people. People are going to get very self-conscious. So you have to learn to sort of overcome that tendency towards self-consciousness and just blow it wide open. And you jump in and join all those people that are out there enjoying what you're doing together.

I get really nervous right before I go on stage. But once I'm performing, I always love it. It's like being in a different world.

When you're on stage, you're in control. No one can get to you.

Nobody was listening when I learned how to play music. But there's something about being on stage, talking to the audience, looking at them and smiling, that's always been difficult for me. I'm a lot more comfortable now, but there are still moments of awkwardness.