Billie Eilish Quotes

Sometimes, the most daunting thing about performing is making eye contact with your audience, so just look above them and at the corners of the room. Soon, you'll totally forget they're there.

I am the 'Cosmic Dancer' who dances his way out of the womb and into the tomb on 'Electric Warrior.' I'm not frightened to get up there and groove about in front of six million people on TV because it doesn't look cool. That's the way I would do it at home.

Every time I go on stage, it's like a first date. I put on my best clothes, shave, and get as handsome as I can. Then I say the cutest things I know to say, and I become the very best Bill Medley I can be because I want to win my date over. My audience is the date that I want to impress every time.

Once I decided to be a different person on stage, I got the chance to be larger than life and over the top, which I love.

I want to be able to deliver the kind of show that I want - to go onstage with my chin held up.

When I go onstage and am performing the way I want to... I finally feel like myself.

I'm not the kind of person who ever thought, 'Oh, a one-woman show - bring it on!'

Every time I step onto the stage, it's not only proving to the audience that I'm capable but to myself.

I used to hate touring, I used to absolutely hate it! I think one of the reasons why was because in between songs I found it difficult to talk to the audience, and now I don't care, I say what I want!

I won't be satisfied until people want to hear me sing without looking at me. Of course, that doesn't mean I want them to stop looking.

If I want to wear a dress, I'll wear a dress.

One place that I really feel comfortable is being a comedienne. I'm very socially inept. There's so many things that I can not do in life, and this is, like, the one thing that I have mastery over. It's my world. And anybody who's coming to the show, it's like they're coming because they know that this is my world.

I always felt like my future was at stake every time I stepped on stage and that was kind of hair-raising. At some point I just went, don't be frightened, you can't do anything wrong, it's your show.

I think the more you do this and the more comfortable you become on stage, you start speaking more and becoming more of a character in yourself.

You can't lose your concentration at all. And there are times when you're on the stage, and you've got silence, which is wonderful, but you have to have the confidence to make you realize it's fine. You can't suddenly wobble and think, 'They're not interested.'

Before every show, I have to put perfume on. I know the crowd's not necessarily going to smell me, but when I smell good, I feel like I can dominate the room.

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.

I've always been a performer. That's just what I know.

Every time I would open my mouth to sing, everybody was paying attention to me. It became a habit.

Strangely enough I'm better on a stage. I love that I feel like I blossom in front of a whole bunch of people.

I can never wink at the audience.

I don't think that just because you go on stage you are an exhibitionist.

When I'm performing for the people, I am me, then. I am that little girl who, when she was five years old, used to sing at church. Or I'm that 15-year-old young lady who wanted to be grown and wanted to sing and couldn't wait to be smokin' a cigarette, you know?

I feel like I own the stage.

I feel so much at home onstage and so comfortable in my body.