Tobias Forge Quotes

We just finished making a record. Everybody wants to play shows, so we're going to after that.

Usually, when we go out, it's because we made a new studio album, and that becomes the focus of the tour throughout the world for a year or so.

Sometimes I think our problems are made worse by the kind of business we're in. Playing these road shows is a weird experience.

We completed and released 'No Code' in 1996. We began some off and on touring for that release.

If I had had a chance to tour with Van Halen before the record, I think it would have been a different record.

Then we did what we called basically I suppose a club tour in England, which was the time I think that our second album came out, we club toured around the whole country where the venues were hold to five hundreds upwards to that sort of thing you know.

In the beginning, I was frightened to death of going solo. Especially when doing live shows, I was so used to my brothers being next to me. It felt like the crowd was just looking at me, waiting for me to either mess up or prove myself.

I'm ashamed to say it, but I watch YouTube videos of our live shows, wondering if it actually sounded the way it sounded when I was playing it, and the consistent thing I see is that you can feel the anxiety and the tension and it's over-aggressive a lot of the time.

I get stage fright really bad sometimes, so touring has been hard on me in a lot of ways. But despite that, I love performing.

I think the pressure gets to me when I play shows and there's more people in the audience than I'm used to.

I became a recording artist before I knew it. And I just - when I would listen to my old records, I'd just hear this young, extremely nervous fella that that made me want to run out of the room, you know, rather than listen to what he had to say.

When I started out playing live, it was different. I felt good about it. Nobody knew who I was. I just opened for so-and-so. Now, I'm playing to people who are coming out to see the band. There's too much attention on the band and me.

The period of time between when you're done with a record and when you start touring is the worst period of a time in a musician's life.

We're on tour for six months out of the year.

I still get nervous sometimes before performing.

I haven't found a comfortable place onstage. I'm sure it doesn't have to be comfortable, but I'm very nervous, so I don't enjoy myself.

I've just recently started doing the promo bits for the new album, and the funny thing is that the people who come to talk to me about these things seem to be getting younger. It's like the people who like the music are all young kids and they're on top of you - they know all about what you're doing, and they're excited and animated about it. So it's a lot of fun.

I am always nervous about doing voice-over work. I'm always clammy and I worry, "What if my voice squeaks? What if I don't deliver it right?" Until you start saying the lines, it's always nerve-wracking, for some reason, and I've never gotten over that.

I'm scared of the interviews...I'm scared of having to get up onstage again. I'm scared of the critique. I'm scared right now of doing this again. But that's why I have to do it, I think.

I'm a free agent so I'm probably gonna be signing a major deal that I'm gonna be announcing pretty soon, and a few good singles are coming out.

You kind of half-prepare a speech in your head, and then you get up there and then you end up saying nothing that was in your head before you went up there. It's a very weird thing. I never do award speeches too well.

I get nervous before everything - dates, filming, awards shows.

The terror of performing never goes away. Instead, you get very, very comfortable being terrified.

The most nervous I've ever been was on a 250 pound music video which is the first thing I ever did. And I stepped on there with a directing partner, so I could blame him when everything went tits up. But since then my nerves have incrementally decreased so I'm not plagued by the same sense of nerves as I used to be.

Many people associate stage fright with a fear of looking ridiculous, making a bad impression. For me, it's like a kind of fever.