Nadine Coyle Quotes

When she started crying in my rehearsal, I felt so badly because I was like, 'I'm making Kelly Clarkson cry right now,' but it also felt really good because I thought, 'If she is feeling this, hopefully, America will feel this, too.'

The people only understand what they can feel; the only orators that can affect them are those who move them.

I'm definitely a crier. I get really emotional if someone's being rude or says something mean about me.

'The Voice Kids' was a tremendous success in Holland. There was a big emotional reaction from the parents of the children taking part.

On 'Idol,' I understood that everyone wanted to hear my vocals, so I stuck with the ballads.

Frankly, if 'American Idol' was the way I'd have to audition as a singer, I'd be standing behind the counter in a 5&10 right now. I couldn't have done it that way.

To me, it's never about the trick. I don't care about how something works. I care about how people feel when they watch it. You know, that - that connection - that emotional connection is true magic.

Above all, I try to create an emotion to which others can respond.

I think it was when I was 12 when I entered a singing competition. I sang my own original song for an audience of 1,000 people.

I think TV is all about caring, and if you don't care about a character in a drama or a person when they get voted out of a reality show, it's bad TV. I wouldn't care if you dropped a bomb on the 'Big Brother' house.

When you walk out onstage in front of 65,000 people, it can bring you to tears.

Showing 'Get Out' to a room full of strangers and having them react lets them be introspective and see the way certain images affect other people.

You'd think after 100 shows you'd be used to this, but it's not true for me. It always feels like the first show.

I'm ashamed to say it, but I watch YouTube videos of our live shows, wondering if it actually sounded the way it sounded when I was playing it, and the consistent thing I see is that you can feel the anxiety and the tension and it's over-aggressive a lot of the time.

I'm well aware that no matter how big of a jerk I am, some people will cheer me, and no matter what I do, some people will boo me, and that's fine. I just need to elicit emotion. That's all I care about.

One of the things I love about 'Idol' besides the drama, the backstories, and the crazy arrangements on popular songs is the auditions, when everyone is full of hope and nerves.

Sometimes I feel like if I'm not getting people to boo me, then I'm not doing my job right.

I am a stress buster. Because I knew what people react or think after watching me on screen and I love it.

I remember coming in second in a singing competition when I was about 5. I was terrified and didn't win because I apparently looked miserable.

When you're playing music and you're starting to expose yourself for the first time, there's nothing more powerful than being listened to and being actually heard.

I had no idea what being on stage would be like or how I'd react to the applause. I didn't think I deserved their applause. Then I realized I'd done something to make them feel something. That made it okay. But it was weird. A nice weird.

The first time I performed on stage, that was almost the first concert I went to, so that was pretty interesting and a bit weird at the same time.

Every movement of the theater by a skilful poet is communicated, as it were, by magic, to the spectators; who weep, tremble, resent, rejoice, and are inflamed with all the variety of passions which actuate the several personages of the drama.

Today, I wanted to spend some time reading and responding to comments of fans on my Facebook page. Yes, there are great comments, but there are also a lot of people who are very opinionated and judgmental. So, initially, when I read these judgmental comments, I don't feel vulnerable, but rather I get defensive. But once I get past that anger, it sort of becomes hurt. It becomes pain.

I think you can talk about anything if the context is correctly arranged. If you set up the context and you bring the audience along carefully enough with you, you can get them to cross the line with you. What I try to do is talk about things that bother me, and I hope that in doing so I bother other people.