Mireille Mathieu Quotes

The first time I got onstage was when I was about 5 years old. It was at a church social, and I had a poem to recite.

The first time I sang in front of an audience, I was about 14 - it was at my guitar school's showcase, and there were about 30 people there. I was so nervous, but I did it.

I've been singing since I was a little kid, but 'Sierra' was my first time singing on camera, which was definitely intimidating at first.

First time I sang, I was singing Alicia Keys in the bathroom of my mom's beauty shop. I was six.

There were wonderful moments when I was singing for the first time in the Olympia Theatre and I was pregnant with my son, which was very, very strange for a singer.

In general, I'm pretty shy and nervous about a lot of things. For me to get on stage for the first time took so many times at an open mic before I finally got on stage and did it.

I'm not comfortable singing in front of people yet. That's going to take another 100 performances.

I was probably six years old when I first sang before an audience.

The first time I sang in church, when I was ten, the applause was so overwhelming that I started to weep. My mum had to rescue me from the stage.

There's just a total boatload of crazy that goes with singing live for the first time when you're 60 years old.

I always wanted to solo at the church and they didn't ever give it to me. But eventually they did and I froze. But then I killed it.

My first-night jitters are so bad, I can't even hold a tea cup, but once I am over that, I get really into it.

The first time I performed musically, I threw up.

But when the 'Glee' audition came around, my manager literally had to talk me into it. I was petrified to sing in front of anyone.

In 2004, I went onstage for the first time. They put a mike in my hand and pushed me out the door into the crowd. I did the three songs I had recorded and got out. It was the worst day of my life.

And when I perform on my own tour, I have to talk myself into going out on that stage every single night.

My first competition, I guess, singing-wise, I was six years old, and there's a video of it, too. I'm just, like, stick straight. I'm not moving at all, and I'm just singing.

It was June 4, 1979, the first time I went on stage. I didn't know I could do it but I knew I couldn't not do it. I quit everything in my life and this was the one thing I couldn't quit.

I conquered my stage fright a long time ago. In my line of work, it's kind of a pre-requisite that you not feel bad about looking stupid in front of a lot of people.

I still remember the first gig where I got people going, it was Rascals in New Jersey, and the place was packed. I was scared. People were expecting me to be funny. I gotta be honest, every time I walk into a club, it's that same fear.

I don't feel nervous or fearful when I'm on stage.

The most scared I'd ever been was the first time I sang at a rugby match, Australia versus New Zealand, in front of one hundred thousand people. I had a panic attack the night before because people have been booed off and never worked again... just singing one song, the national anthem.

The first time I ever got up on a stage, I did a comedy poem. I don't know how I got there in the first place because I was very, very shy.

For the first time I go to La Scala, for each thing, for each rehearsal, my knees were shaking. But the audience was very fine with me.

It's so scary to go on stage. I used to throw up before I went on stage, every time.