Doug Stanhope Quotes

When you get onstage, you can see everyone in the audience's face, down to the detail. You can see who may or may not be yawning.

When I performed the songs in front of an audience at the end of each project and I knew the storytellers were in the crowd listening, that was hard.

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

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.

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

I don't get stage fright, I actually love the energy, I love the spontaneity, I love the adrenaline you get in front of a live audience, it actually really works for me.

The minute you step onstage, you get eight feet taller.

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

Once I get out onstage, it's the same sort of basic production that it is anywhere else. But I might be a little bit aware that there might be people I know out there, who wondered where I was.

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

I don't feel nervous or fearful when I'm on stage.

When you are on stage, you don't see faces. The lights are in your eyes and you see just this black void out in front of you. And yet you know there is life out there, and you have to get your message across.

Being on stage makes me come to life. When all eyes are on you, they're watching every move you make.

Performing live in front of an audience is such a matter of will - all of those things you can do just fine in your basement, suddenly you have to do them in front of hundreds or thousands of people, and it becomes a different matter entirely.

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've never not appeared in front of a live audience for any longer period than a month or two.

It's the adrenaline rush you only get from being in front of an audience. It's addictive.

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'm really conflicted about my role as a front-person. I hate the attention.

Once I'm on stage, the energy of the crowd wipes my nerves away.

It's quite pretentious, really, isn't it? The notion the audience is going to be interested in you for an hour and a half. Think too much about that and anxiety takes over.

I've always been excited at the idea of performing a solo show.

Certainly, being on stage is a rush.

Reading a piece of poetry with no beat in front of 20 people is way more challenging than rocking for 10,000 people.

I got on stage for the first time when I was seven. From seven until I was about nine it was probably more to do with just being on stage and having the attention.