Patti Smith Quotes

I love being onstage and I love to perform. To be honest with you, I'm more comfortable performing than I am in an everyday situation, which I can't quite explain.

I'm most comfortable on stage.

I really, really love being on stage now.

At times in my life the only place I have been happy is when I am on stage.

Well, as you know, I'm really only happy when I'm on stage.

Certainly, being on stage is a rush.

In a strange way, I'm way more comfortable onstage than anywhere else.

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.

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.

The more you perform and get out there, I guess the more practice you have at it and the better you are and the more comfortable you are on stage.

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.

Some people love being onstage and really open up, and I'm sort of the opposite of that. I don't crave the spotlight. I'm still not comfortable even talking onstage.

Once you step on that stage, to me, that's where I feel most comfortable - performing live. So that's something would do each and every day of my life if I could.

I am comfortable performing now. I love it!

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 feel real confidence in working on the stage.

The thing is, I'm happiest when I'm on stage.

I just liked the feeling of being on stage.

I guess nobody can teach you the knack, or whatever it is, that helps you come to life on stage.

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.

On stage the spotlight is on me and I cannot afford to be shy.

When you're an actor, people just take it for granted that you're really confident and can get up in front a stage full of people and just speak to them.

Very few people know what it's like being onstage looking out at a sea of bodies.

I don't feel like I'm the type of performer who's going to knock your socks off. I'm trying to get over my nerves.

There's nothing more vulnerable than just standing in front of a thousand people, or ten thousand people, and doing your best to entertain them, touch them in some way.