Josh Groban Quotes

Carly Simon abandoned the stage for seven years after collapsing from nerves before a concert in Pittsburgh in 1981. When she resumed performing, she would sometimes ask members of her band to spank her before she went onstage, to distract her from her anxiety.

I get so nervous before I go onstage - beyond butterflies!

I don't wake up drenched in sweat because I haven't been on stage in years.

I have stage fright every single concert I've ever done. I have at least four or five minutes of it. It's absolute living hell.

I get stage fright really bad sometimes, so touring has been hard on me in a lot of ways. But despite that, I love performing.

I get nervous all the time. Both on and off stage. You just hope it turns into adrenaline.

It's good to have butterflies. And they always go away. The camera starts rolling and they go away and it's all good.

I still suffer terribly from stage fright. I get sick with fear. Not every night, but at the beginning and on occasion - not necessarily when I'm expecting it. You just have to cope with it - take it on the chin and work through it, trying to use the adrenalin to perform.

When I was younger and did a stand-up gig, it would take me two weeks to recover. Sometimes I'd get so panicked that I would stutter.

I still get nervous about singing. I drink tea with honey and lemon before every concert. And I need to have scented candles in all of my hotel rooms.

Sometimes I get butterflies before I get up on stage.

I suffer greatly from nerves. I have stage-fright badly, and it gets worse, but the stage is still my life.

My nerves before a gig got worse; I had terrible bad nerves all the time. Once we started... I was fine.

I tend to be very relaxed on stage, but the nerves have to come out somehow.

When I first started out, I was really, really scared when I performed before an audience. I'd look over their heads.

When I first started performing, I was a nervous wreck. Honestly, sometimes I felt like I was going to run off the stage.

I throw up before every show. I'm thinking about just making it part of the act.

I used to be really nervous to perform in front of people. I would cry.

Performing is the one time I don't have anxiety - surprisingly, right?

Performing gives me so much anxiety.

I'm always nervous before playing a gig, to tell you the truth. It's what nearly did me in when I was with the Libertines. I just couldn't handle it.

If I'm playing music in front of people, I'll lose days to nerves like really wasted days of just like being terrified. And then when I get out there, generally speaking, I enjoy it very much. But it seems to be I have to accept the fact that that's just part of the deal for me. And I can't just run on and do it.

You know what, I'm a big coward and I'm really afraid of live audiences.

I used to get nervous so I took up Yoga to help me calm down.

Once, and only once, I walked on stage and my mind went utterly blank! I had no idea why I was there! My fellow actors had to rescue me. I was very young and new to the business, so I'm glad it didn't give me stage fright for the rest of my life!