Ashton Irwin Quotes

I want to continue to do music and stay on the stage because I love the stage. And I want to continue to write songs.

When we were 15, my brother and I were getting really into Nirvana, Green Day, and The Beastie Boys. We started going to shows and realized we really wanted to be on stage.

My earliest musical memory was getting to watch my dad play drums in a local band. He's a banker by trade, but a drummer at heart. I remember seeing the guitar player do the solo from "Werewolves of London" with his teeth, and that was the moment that had me hooked.

I'm closest to the music when I'm onstage with the band, playing.

It's funny, because I had no intention of being in a band because I was so shy. But I loved playing music and loved writing songs. I always thought I'd be in the background and, if I did get into a band, be a backup musician.

Pop music means everything to me. I've been listening to pop since I was kid, running home from school to watch Britney Spears and Spice Girls and Christina Aguilera music videos, and it felt like it was a world to escape to for me personally.

I think live stuff is certainly stuff I enjoy doing. I do like performing for people and bringing it to people.

I spent thousands of thousands of hours playing the piano, and by thousands of hours, I mean playing in cover bands or wedding bands or disco bands or original bands or playing cabaret for Todd McKenney.

I think the best part for me is just being able to perform for people every week.

Performing was the natural thing originally and the rest of it [records and so on] is just like offshoots of that. That's how I see it anyway.

Performing is one of the best feelings I know!

Nothing beats performing live. For me, there's nothing better.

When I started out in this business, I was a performer before I was a songwriter, I was a performer before I was recording. Performing is the roots. That's where it all came from. You didn't start out doing it because you wanted to make an album.

Immediate gratification of a live audience makes me come alive. I miss performing in theater. I'll make my return to the stage eventually.

I think the idea of being on stage and playing for people, and being able to inject a little bit of joy into their lives is a really exciting concept for me. That's definitely why I make music. It's never been for any kind of materialistic reasons, so that thought of being able to be up on stage, and being able to give something to someone in a moment of need for them - that gets me up in the morning; that really excites me.

It's always been great to be onstage. It's really effortless up there. It's not a lot of work.

I love performing live: it's my very favorite thing to do.

Whether it's five people or 50,000 people, I always love to perform and feel very blessed that I'm able to do that.

Whenever I'm onstage, I try my best not to think that I'm performing. It's simply another part of my day.

Sometimes I'm dragging my ass out to the airport at 8 a.m. on a Saturday and I'm wondering why I'm doing this, but once I walk on stage I know why...because I'm addicted.

There's one thing you can't download and that's a live performance. And I know how to put on a show, and enjoy performing, and I'll always have that.

Performing live is like harvesting your crops and sharing your food with people.

The thing that I love most about being on stage is making people happy...It's my job to do that, and I enjoy it.

In high school no guys wanted to be in a band with me unless I was going to play bass or play grindcore or be in a scream-o band, so it was fun to finally have that experience of having my songs backed by a drummer and a bassist who were just as excited about it as I was.

My favourite thing about touring is really the shows, because early on you can say it's definitely things like travel and seeing the world and stuff like that, but over time you don't really get to see the world. The most important thing in the day is the show. So that's why I do it.