Jimmy Buffett Quotes

I am not a good cue card reader.

I expect if you're a professional public speaker, you probably wouldn't want to go onstage and sing and play drums.

I'm a huge karaoke fan. Oh my God. I'm one of those girls who don't give the mic away. It's a problem. I'm a closeted pop star.

Onstage I have a natural chutzpa that audiences like. I'm out there.

Well, as you know, I'm really only happy when I'm on stage.

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

I just liked the feeling of being on stage.

I'm most comfortable on stage.

For me, performing isn't really particularly difficult.

I started by doing a little funny story, and then I started going to open mics. I realized I had a lot of work to do - you have to get over the stage fright and get your stage presence up. It took me some time, but I finally feel that I'm at a point where I feel comfortable on stage and giving my point of view.

Ever since I was a kid, I loved being up in front of people. I loved making people laugh; I never had any stage fright.

That's the thing: when I'm on stage, I don't care; there could be ten people there, there could be ten million people there. But if I'm offstage, I'm, like, counting the people. I know exactly where everyone's standing, how far they are from me.

An hour show panics me a lot less than five minutes at the O2. How do you put yourself across and make sure people have a good time in five minutes?

I always sang after every dinner or when we had people over or when we had a show in school. I just loved to be on stage and sing in front of people.

If you're a lead singer, then you can't afford to be sensitive. On stage, everyone looks at the lead singer, even if you don't want them to - in America, they have those massive follow spots on you all the time; it does your head in. So, if you are a lead singer and you don't toughen up, you're in the wrong job, and you have to get out.

I figured, 'Why not go into entertainment?' I love entertaining people. I always loved being extra loud.

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

I think I will always be performing; I don't think I can take that away. Because I really just enjoy it. I like getting up to sing; I like the challenge of learning new material and singing it in front of an audience.

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.

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

Backstage, I get sleepy, and want to curl up and snooze. I never get nervous, whatever the event. I feel quite detached until I walk on stage, and then some gear inside me clicks and off I go like a wind up doll.

You have to be ready to sing and perform at any time.

If I was going onstage, of course I would talk about it. How could I not?

I love performing, and I love being in front of people. I love the pressure you get and the pleasure performing brings.

People buy a ticket to see your show, so from the moment I get onstage, I can have no insecurities, because they're already there. You have to get people to listen. If they listen, everything's cool.