Devin Townsend Quotes

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

I love playing to people and seeing them react.

When I was a kid and went to shows, my favorites were Live Events. You really see a performer's personality on Live Events than on TV.

For me, I feel most at home when I'm playing live.

I find that I get most of the same things I loved about performing in the ring when I do my live shows around the world.

One of the main reasons for wanting to perform live again was to have contact with that audience.

I'm a live performer and I love playing live.

I make records so I can go on tour. There's nothing else. I love to go out and play for people.

When I'm doing a set as an artist I'm right in front of the stage the entire time, interacting with the crowd. The DJ set's a little different but they both are great and high energy for the crowd.

We love touring. We love being in front of the fans.

The band's filter, but playing live is a lot of fun.

I like doing theaters. I like being up close and personal with the fans. It's really cool.

I think in 2016 I'm going to focus on performing a lot more and doing as many shows as I can. There's plans to tour more, and that's where my heart is - doing the live shows.

My dream has been to have my rock band behind me, play live, and entertain.

But live shows are cool. I just got back into the idea of enjoying it live.

Performing live is the greatest high in the world. That's why I do what I do.

My fans, country radio, friends, family, you name it - they know I love to perform.

The adrenaline of a live performance is unlike anything in film or theater. I can see why it's so addictive.

I love doing concerts. For me, it's the favorite thing I do. I get to communicate with the audience in a direct way.

Performing live is easy in front of an audience.

I'm learning what I gotta do to get people hyped up. It doesn't matter even if they're not dancing, as long as they're bobbing their head and as long as it looks like a mosh pit down there.

When it comes to being on stage, I might be on stage one minute and the next minute I might be in the audience, dancing and lifting people's spirits.

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.

I find that if I interact more, the crowd gets way more into the music. We also have a full live show happening, and I have lighting crew that travels around with me. We've got this Infinity Prism thing, which is lots of fun. It's an optical illusion device that we carry around.

Even the idea of people paying to hear me shouting into a microphone for an hour is alien to me - and I hope it always will be.