Phillip Phillips Quotes

I'm not saying I look cool, but every single time I go onstage, it is a fail if I don't feel like I'm going to pass out at least twice.

I don't know if it's a blessing or a curse, but every time I show up on set it still feels like the first time.

I've been in a talent show, yeah. They are terrifying. The most nerve-wracking experience of your life, I'd say.

It may take me a long time before I feel 'ready' to tour as a lead singer. I may never be ready... we'll just have to see.

There's just a total boatload of crazy that goes with singing live for the first time when you're 60 years old.

Every time you go up to the board, you get scared. It's more like adrenaline, though - you feel pumped and ready to go.

Every time you get in front of the lights and the cameras and you think, 'Okay, well, we've done this before, but we have to do it again? Oh, we're doing it again? We're doing it again?' It's so gratifying, but I don't think I'll ever get used to it. I hope I won't.

Every single night I'm nervous. You never know how the audience is going to react.

Every time I do a play, it's as if I've never done one before. I'm always confused. I always am convinced I'm going to be fired. I'm like, 'I don't remember how to act. I don't know how to do this.' And, it's just a very slow process, and then, all of a sudden, it's just there one day. I still don't understand how it happens.

I get nervous every time, for every single performance, before getting up on that stage.

I always think the second worst thing in the world is to go on stage at night, and the first worst thing in the world is sitting at home at night. For me, it's scarier to not be doing it than doing it.

Sharing the stage while singing my songs was a bit of a daunting prospect.

It's terrifying to play your favorite band's song in front of your favorite band.

I still remember the first gig where I got people going, it was Rascals in New Jersey, and the place was packed. I was scared. People were expecting me to be funny. I gotta be honest, every time I walk into a club, it's that same fear.

For many years, I didn't even like the idea of doing a one-person play. Public speaking got me past that. I've always been good at public speaking, but I never really enjoyed it. Then I started to really enjoy it, and that's made all the difference.

I enjoyed doing Lipstick, but it scared me. I was very nervous. I couldn't wait for it to be over. It was very real, and I was just a kid.

Although I don't gamble in life - I've never played poker - I do gamble on stage. I gamble with myself: 'Can I do this?'

You want to have butterflies in your stomach, because if you don't, if you walk out onstage complacent, that's not a good thing.

As soon as I step on that stage, nothing matters. I don't think of it as work. It's just so much fun.

I can be completely spontaneous, which is absolutely wonderful. I don't like it at the same time; no one wants to be nervous all the time, but that nervousness mixes with the excitement I feel on the stage, and it makes for a wonderful performance.

Radio interviews are really snappy and I'm just bad at that. I just close down.

You can't be a human and a guy and not connect with Pippin... I often feel like Pippin. I come offstage sometimes like 'Oh my God, I've got to do this next time! I've gotta go there. I'm going to make this choice.'

There's some anxiety the 30 minutes before the show starts. But once you step on stage and face the people, everything goes away, and you have fun and enjoy the audience.

I know really, really famous people who are terrified every time they walk on to a stage.

I know when I am on stage and I'm kind of on the right track - hopefully most of the time. But a lot of time I'm not.