Mark Mothersbaugh Quotes

I wanted to stop while we were still getting big hits. The only thing I miss is the actual performing.

You cannot imagine how great it is to step out on the stage with thousands of screaming fans loving you.

There's no feeling like performing. It's magical, it's so rewarding, and it just feeds this special little part of your soul.

I like to keep my normal life under wraps but in front of 80,000 people, I'm going to perform.

I love performing, and I love being in front of people. I love the pressure you get and the pleasure performing brings.

I think that's what is so cool about performing. When there is a show to do, you get up there and do it.

I still do lots of gigs where I'm the support act and people are chatting through my set, but I've got better at grabbing attention. I mean, my parents would play on bills with people like Judas Priest and get booed all the way through. But they stuck it out, got tough.

Work-home-work-home, that's being an actor. Being a rock star? I get to travel the world, meet all the fans in person, party with my fans every night, and people who appreciate the art.

I didn't want to be a performer. I didn't want to be famous.

I never dreamed that I would hear 10,000 people screaming when I stepped out onto a stage. Well, that's not entirely true. I dreamed about it but in a performing-on-the-stage-at-Staples-Center-or-Madison-Square-Garden context. But never in a I'm-in-a-movie-that-hasn't-even-come-out-yet one.

I'm in a band, and we play music. And that's sort of my way of still being a rock star.

I think being a rock star is a little bit different than being an athlete or even a movie star.

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

Being a rock star rocks.

It's fantastic to be at the back of a theatre and to think, 'These people have come to see me.'

I love performing, and if I didn't love it, I wouldn't be doing it.

It's so much fun to be on stage and play. It really is.

I never wanted to be a performer, I never wanted to be Yo Yo Honey Singh, the rock star.

For me, there's nothing like performing.

We'll play somewhere like London, playing to 2,000 people easy, and every time you play with more people, you think, 'You're a rock star,' and it makes you laugh. I guess I am, but I'm also, you know, not.

I always used to get goosebumps in Madison Square Garden, because as soon as I started making my entrance, people would be chanting my name. 'BRU-NO! BRU-NO!'

I'm not nervous coming back to my old audience. I'm looking forward to it. That's really what I do; that's my day job.

I like performing in front of big crowds.

When I'm on stage, I feel like a performer, for sure. I know people are looking at me and taking pictures and singing along, and that part's wonderful.

I might even end up a rock and roll god, it might turn into a steady job.