Borns Quotes

When I tour with the new album, I still do the classics, and I love the atmosphere it creates with the whole audience singing along.

I discovered after going to music festivals that I am a rock fan. I love the guitars, the phrasing, and the abandon of rock fans.

I just feed off the energy of the audience.

If you've never been to one of my concerts. I want you to know that it is OK to scream and yell.

My favourite two festivals have always been the Big Day Out and Summersonic in Japan. The Big Day Out is a little more fun because it lasts longer. It's like an abbreviated version of the Warped tour because you get to play with the same people every day, which is really fun.

I love that there's always something happening at festivals. It takes some of the pressure away, too, because you're one person on the bill.

I like to see other bands, and I like to hear their songs, but I really like it when they engage the audience.

There's just a completely different vibe at festivals. Everyone gets to hang out and enjoy their favorite music all day. I really do try and play as many festivals as possible!

Apart from working on music, I'd rather play big festivals than almost anything else.

I'd never been to a festival till I played one.

I've been going to Europe for some time on the festival circuit, and once you get in that element and see others reacting to it, it's easier to understand. You get trapped in the wave. The beats are driving and super-aggressive - like, so hard. I was curious.

I'm not a really religious person, but those moments onstage feel like some sort of religious experience because no one holds back, especially 'Stay With Me' when I finish the show. It kind of turns into an anthem when I perform it live, and it feels like there's a lot of love in the room.

Usually when festivals are really huge it's kind of weird. It's totally fun for me and my band to play in front of a crowd that doesn't necessarily know who we are, but festivals get pretty impersonal when they get super large.

We think of the Warped Tour as kind of like everyone's big birthday party.

Playing a room, it's a real dictator-type situation - you can really move the crowd the way you want to. In a festival, there's a sea of people, and it's harder to lock in on any one group.

Music festivals are coming up everywhere in India, and that is the only way to go ahead. People are exposed to a wide variety of music, and the experience of being at a music festival itself is unique. It is an experience unlike any other.

I really do try and play as many festivals as possible.

I think a lot of audience members don't realize the part that they play in live theatre. The audience actually has a mood. Sometimes they're tired and bored, and we have to wake them up and engage them.

There used to be a time when people used to hold up cigarette lighters and candles at concerts, and the place was aglow to celebrate the end of the evening, or during a slow song, there was this congregational euphoria that used to exist. It still does, but now it's a question of iPhones being held up.

There's nothing like sweating it up in a small club, with your fans right in your face.

The audience fills me back up, definitely.

We couldn't even contemplate doing 'Hairspray' without a live audience.

Sometimes you really rely on the audience to have a good time playing live, and sometimes you could have zero people or a thousand, and you'd feel exactly the same.

The biggest thing for me, I hate going to concerts where no-one's moving. Everyone should be dancing and having a good time.

I've had some of my best matches in front of 50 people in bingo halls and VFW halls and things like that.