Thom Yorke Quotes

It feels like the more I'm out there in the public eye, the more criticism I get. You need to have confidence - that's what it takes to walk out there and sing a song in front of a huge group of people.

I know when I am on stage and I'm kind of on the right track - hopefully most of the time. But a lot of time I'm not.

I get a little teary on stage sometimes. It can be really emotional when it dawns on you that people are singing along and having fun.

Every time I step onto the stage, it's not only proving to the audience that I'm capable but to myself.

If you're up there [on stage] thinking about what you're doing, you're just not there and it's not going to happen.So trying to learn how to overcome those - which is a normal thing to do. You're in front of a lot of people. People are going to get very self-conscious. So you have to learn to sort of overcome that tendency towards self-consciousness and just blow it wide open. And you jump in and join all those people that are out there enjoying what you're doing together.

I feel like you've gotta be able to get up every night in front of a live audience. Whether it's 10 people or 50 people or a hundred people, whether you're in a rock band or doing the comedy circuit.

I don't think that just because you go on stage you are an exhibitionist.

I don't get stage fright, I actually love the energy, I love the spontaneity, I love the adrenaline you get in front of a live audience, it actually really works for me.

I like getting up in front of an audience. It's fun when you go to a baseball game and the crowd is cheering you. I can't deny it. And it's very funny, too. Sometimes you're shy; you go somewhere and everyone's looking at you, so you feel a little self-conscious.

You put him in front of 50,000 people, he's at home.

Performing live in front of an audience is such a matter of will - all of those things you can do just fine in your basement, suddenly you have to do them in front of hundreds or thousands of people, and it becomes a different matter entirely.

An 'OMG' of mine would probably be speaking on stage and performing in front of thousands of people!

When you're singing before 15,000 people at a summer concert outside, you need to look beautiful, because that's what people want.

To be honest, I don't know really what I do on stage.

I'm still finding my legs, performance-wise, being up there by myself. I think I have a bit of proving myself ahead of me.

Well, as you know, I'm really only happy when I'm on stage.

When I'm on stage, all is right with the world.

If I live to be 90, and I'm planning to, I'll always love performing for a live audience.

Performing live is easy in front of an audience.

I love performing in front of a live audience and just stepping out in front of ruddy Royal Albert Hall is just something, I can't describe it.

That's the thing: when I'm on stage, I don't care; there could be ten people there, there could be ten million people there. But if I'm offstage, I'm, like, counting the people. I know exactly where everyone's standing, how far they are from me.

Playing in front of a crowd is something you learn. You accept it and then you start to relish it.

I've played the Royal Albert Hall to 8,500 people, and there wasn't a nerve in my body.

Very few people know what it's like being onstage looking out at a sea of bodies.

I'm not the kind of person who ever thought, 'Oh, a one-woman show - bring it on!'