Ari Lennox Quotes

On 'Idol,' I understood that everyone wanted to hear my vocals, so I stuck with the ballads.

Unless the clients want, I don't like to have dancers for my shows. I prefer a rock show look and like performing with a live band.

I can never stand in one place on stage for more than a minute and am always singing, dancing and jumping.

I don't get stage fright, I actually love the energy, I love the spontaneity, I love the adrenaline you get in front of a live audience, it actually really works for me.

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.

When I come onstage, I'm exploding.

But I love the hot sweat. I think overheating onstage is invigorating. It's better than being comfortable. I think being comfortable is the death of a show.

When you're on stage you have a very strange knowledge of what the audience is. It isn't exactly a sound - it's a hum, like the streets.

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

My live performance, it just comes from feeling an energy and emotion from the crowd.

As a performer, I'm very, very confident in what I do.

I think I should get a bigger between-the-song persona, so then I'm not wandering around the stage like some mad old auntie that's saying hello to people and falling over.

When I'm on stage, I'm quite over the top - I'm quite flamboyant and camp.

Sometimes I get more excited for shows that I know are going to be quieter because it gets me more inspired to be more of a showman and be more of an entertainer and forces me to work harder.

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.

When I get up there, maybe I'm nervous for the first song, but then I get into it. It's a lot of fun to stand up there. I always enjoy the moment when I'm actually standing on stage. When I'm done, I'm like, 'Oh, I want to play one more song.'

But I do think I'm quite a selfish performer in the sense that I'm not one of those that's like 'Hey, come on everybody lets sing along' you know that kind of thing.

As scary as it is, I like making real, direct eye contact with people from the stage. In a sense, it's like modeling: that feeling of locking in and projecting some kind of emotion to try to captivate people.

I know it's cliche, but after the first show, I knew I liked singing, being on stage, making people happy. It just felt natural.

You try to stay in the moment and act like you're singing the song for the first time. You try to have a good time yourself. That's the most important thing. If you're having a good time, people will join you.

I think a lot of people mistake my confidence on stage for cockiness in real life, and that's actually farthest from the truth. When I'm on stage, I'm that confident and that cocky because I have a microphone in my hand, and there's a few thousand people staring at me. And I know they're there to laugh.

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.

You put him in front of 50,000 people, he's at home.

The minute you step onstage, you get eight feet taller.

I don't really feel any different when I get up on stage.