Selena Gomez Quotes

Performing live is a part of who I am.

I first started acting in primary school, just doing little plays. And from the moment I began, something just went 'click' inside me. Suddenly I wasn't shy anymore. Instead I felt confident and happy. I can remember the enormous sense of relief it gave me. I loved the feeling of making people laugh.

I love playing in front of people. I feel powerful, 'cause I don't have to really say anything - I'm just singing.

The thing that fuels me the most is the desire to be on stage. And singing is the ultimate way of expressing all the emotions that I have inside.

I wanted to be a performer, not someone who introduced other performers.

I do love to sing. Had I a longer set of thigh bones and a sweeter voice, I should have loved to be a performer.

I really enjoy singing, it's entirely different to acting because I'm just being myself.

No matter how the day's going, when I get out there on that stage, it makes it all all right.

I think I will always be performing; I don't think I can take that away. Because I really just enjoy it. I like getting up to sing; I like the challenge of learning new material and singing it in front of an audience.

I'm a huge karaoke fan. Oh my God. I'm one of those girls who don't give the mic away. It's a problem. I'm a closeted pop star.

I just want to get on stage and sing and be happy.

But I was singing loud, and most singers weren't singing loud.

Every time I would open my mouth to sing, everybody was paying attention to me. It became a habit.

I don't do anything specific for the stage. I'm just myself. I can't stand still for five seconds. I'm normally quite active, so that just comes out on stage. If I see people react to me and my music, I just have to give back and express myself.

I always knew I had a voice and I've always known I could sing, but I was too shy to let it come out. I think it's the hardest thing to do, to sing in front of people. When I finally let go and did it, I realized it's what I'm most talented at and what I love to do the most.

But I love singing live. Nothing beats the feeling of going out on stage and going, 'I can really sing.'

I always loved singing. I was always trying to sing in school plays. I was in every one I could be in.

For me, performing is the biggest part of being a rapper. There's nothing like the feeling of screaming your story to people.

The only thing I miss on stage is the falsetto.

There's no half-singing in the shower, you're either a rock star or an opera diva.

I'm much more energetic now; you might say live performance is my mission.

I would rather be on stage playing to 25 people with a band I love and the music I love than learning dance moves I don't want to do for 25,000 people.

I am basically a shy person, so performing sometimes helps me focus - having all those people concentrate their attention on you. I don't see it so much as becoming another person onstage; it's more exploring a different side of your personality.

I don't like my voice, and I don't enjoy my singing voice; I do what I do to bring pleasure and diversion to the fans.

It's something that I've always done. I started singing when I was four years old; that was the first time I took a voice lesson. I would say, maybe from five years on, I sang on stages constantly. That's what I call my natural habitat: It's a place where I feel most like myself and the most confident, the most excited.