Shaggy Quotes

I just feed off the energy of the audience.

I feed off the audience a lot, their energy.

Just me onstage with a mike having an intimate relationship with the audience. I don't get nervous for that. I just get excited.

A live performance is the same no matter what genre it is. Wrestling, rock 'n roll, hosting, acting - it's the same thing.

When I'm on stage, my interaction with the audience is something that really makes me come alive. It's a feeling like no other. The energy of the crowd fuels something new inside.

I think I'm more entertainer than musician. I like to get with the crowd, make this night special for them.

A performance is only as good as the audience you are playing to. A lot of times you feed off of the audience, and we always try to give them all we've got and sometimes you don't get a lot back, but we've never been dead whenever we've performed.

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.

I am always excited about playing in front of live audiences because I really enjoy it, for the most part.

When playing any song in front of an audience, you're watching them experience it, and it changes. In a lot of ways, it's almost like the music is just the background buzz to what's happening between you and the audience in the room.

When I play live, I feel how the audience is going and follow and lead at the same time.

The difference between a theatre with and without an audience is enormous. There is a palpable, critical energy created by the presence of the audience.

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

My live performance, it just comes from feeling an energy and emotion from the crowd.

I'm really only happy when I'm on stage. I just feed off the energy of the audience. That's what I'm all about - people and laughter.

I love playing to people and seeing them react.

There is no buzz like performing for a live audience.

I get a little teary on stage sometimes. It can be really emotional when it dawns on you that people are singing along and having fun.

In a live performance, it's a collaboration with the audience; you ride the ebb and flow of the crowd's energy. On television, you don't have that.

There's nothing like performing in front of a live crowd and just having people literally react to whatever it is you do, and there's nothing better than when you get that connection with the audience.

The crowd really controls how I am onstage. One show, it might be a lot of young people, super-high-energy dancing. I mirror that. Other shows, it's much more calm.

Live performances are exhilarating, especially when performing for a young crowd.

When you talk about the exchange of energy between performer and audience and audience and performer, I hope that I'm one of the best.

With Dream Theater live, I may have been a bit of a focal point because I absolutely live for the energy on stage, and having interaction with the audience is absolutely crucial to me - regardless of how some others have described it!

When I'm on stage, it's like a different world ... me connecting with the audience. It's a surreal experience.