Bonnie Tyler Quotes

I just kept touring and touring until it became second nature to go onstage, perform, and sing.

I missed being onstage behind the microphone. After a while, it was hard to hear another voice singing my lyrics.

There's plenty for me to do. There are more albums. I'll record as long as I can and as long as my voice works as well as it does now and for as long as people want to hear me.

And as long as people want to hear me sing, I don't know why I'd retire.

There's no way to be able to tell what it's like to be a country singer until you're walking in the shoes.

I live in Nashville, and I love to sing. When I'm on stage, I feel like a performer for sure. I know people are looking at me and taking pictures and singing along, and that part's wonderful, but I do live in Nashville. I live the most boring life away from what you see me on camera doing.

I think it was when I was 12 when I entered a singing competition. I sang my own original song for an audience of 1,000 people.

I don't ever want to think my time is up as a performer. I have been afforded the opportunity to sell 150 million albums, to travel to places I never thought I would go. I'm going to keep on performing. I hope it never ends.

I don't necessarily feel 100 per cent comfortable standing up on stage in front of lots of people, but I don't think most people would. It's a pretty bizarre thing to do. It can also be absolutely incredible having thousands of people singing back lyrics that you might have written in your bedroom or wherever.

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.

I didn't think I was a famous singer. I didn't think I was a star or that I could make the waters part - just that singing was what I was going to do.

If I could go back, I think I would be a rock star instead of an actor, man.

I am so used to being up on stage and talking to my fans that it's strange to be on stage and be someone else. I can't look at the audience during 'In the Heights' or I will start talking to them.

I always said that I wouldn't use a teleprompter, and if I start to sing real flat, I'll hang it up.

Truth is, you make albums, and some of those songs are hits, and some of the greatest hits albums have songs that weren't hits. You have a career, the reason why we're still around 10 years is that we do have successful songs.

Maybe I just wasn't a show-biz type. I didn't miss performing at all.

It's a unique thing to stand in front of a crowd and sing your songs.

I knew I always wanted to sing.

I want to be safe in the knowledge that I can tour and play festivals for a long time. The main thing is that I want a good reputation as a live performer. If I have that, I'd be so happy.

I always tend to think of all of my shows as possibly my last show. I'm like a junior Springsteen, without the underbite.

I wanted to be a rock star.

Believe it or not, most people think of me as a recording artist, but actually the way I think of myself and the way I earn my living is as a performing artist.

I still do lots of gigs where I'm the support act and people are chatting through my set, but I've got better at grabbing attention. I mean, my parents would play on bills with people like Judas Priest and get booed all the way through. But they stuck it out, got tough.

I enjoy touring. I enjoy recording the music, I enjoy dreaming it and I enjoy performing it. I also definitely enjoy selling it, because I like to eat.

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