Kenny Chesney Quotes

I get so nervous before I go onstage - beyond butterflies!

You're standing onstage in a sold-out arena with people singing your music, and you feel like the loneliest person in the world. Because here's a party that, essentially, it's for you. And you still somehow feel like you don't belong there. Those people all have their lives and go back home.

My first Top of the Pops I didn't want to do. I was terrified. I'd never done television before. Seeing the video afterwards was like watching myself die.

I feel like sometimes that I was not meant for this society.

Wrap parties can be really sad, actually, disorienting.

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.

I would be terrified if Bill Maher was like, 'Hey, do you want to come on the show?' I would be like, 'Oh, God.' It would completely terrify me, even though I'm such a junkie for the show.

You have that moment just before you go on - I've had it in every play - where you just kind of want to run away. There's a whole audience, and they are waiting outside, and you're like, 'Why am I doing this again? Why? Why?'

I get unreasonably nervous before talk shows.

I've never told anyone this. But I suffer from terrible stage fright. True. You can't tell though, can you? Unbelievable, the panic. I nearly die of fear before I go on stage. Something wicked. I can't eat a thing the day before a gig. It'd make me vomit.

Some actors get fired up by the sound of the audience. I just want to retreat.

I did the 'Tonight Show' once, and I choked up. I get intimidated.

It's a sad man my friend who's livin' in his own skin and can't stand the company.

Just having the pain of being alive without anything else, whether it's good or bad. There's a lot of serious songs on the record, you know. That song is just about feeling like a fish out of water, feeling like you don't belong on the planet sometimes.

I think the degree of alienation and despair is more universal.

Live TV would terrify anybody.

I have big, big stage fright.

Sometimes I get butterflies before I get up on stage.

I lived to be on stage, and I'm terrified. Terrified before every show.

I'm too scared to perform onstage. I'm not very good with big crowds.

I was jumping out of my skin. It was horrible. I was all over the place, because I'd never been in front of a live audience. That's a whole other element in the play, the audience.

A big part of depression is feeling really lonely, even if you're in a room full of a million people.

I definitely get stage fright.

Theater has always been terrifying to me.

Auditions make me nervous; any time I have to perform, I get stage fright.