Tove Lo Quotes

Intimacy comes from being yourself on the stage and making the audience feel, without trying, that you're sittin' down there with 'em, playing, and that can happen in a big hall, if you have a good audience that want to listen.

Actors are very demanding because they have nowhere to hide. If I write a scene, it doesn't turn out very well, I don't ever have to show it to anyone; when you turn the camera on, or when you walk on stage, they have to feel like what's happening is real.

It's hard to get intimate with an audience.

You try to stay in the moment and act like you're singing the song for the first time. You try to have a good time yourself. That's the most important thing. If you're having a good time, people will join you.

When you're playing music and you're starting to expose yourself for the first time, there's nothing more powerful than being listened to and being actually heard.

It's hard not to be affected by the live audience.

Intimacy, as I am using it, is sharing my reality with you.

It wasn't so much that I was all alone on stage, but it was the realization of how much you need the response-you need the audience to tell you where to go.

I just feed off the energy of the audience.

There's a oneness to showing yourself to an audience. They feel that. It's healthy. That's what acting is all about.

When you're onstage, you're acutely aware of the reaction of a particular group of people, because it's like a wave.

Performing is a profound experience, at least for me.

When you're on stage you have a very strange knowledge of what the audience is. It isn't exactly a sound - it's a hum, like the streets.

When you are in the studio, you don't have anybody to feed off of; meanwhile, when you are playing live, you interact with people and you feel the energy in the room. When the crowd is going crazy, that definitely impacts your vocal performance. I prefer to sing live.

Once I'm on stage, the energy of the crowd wipes my nerves away.

Own every note I sing and sell it. Make a connection to the audience. That's what it comes down to, you know?

I don't think I always look in people's faces, like, as - I think especially when I'm doing my more intimate songs that are quite personal, I always feel it's a bit accusing if I stare in someone's face when I singing quite a personal lyric.

My live performance, it just comes from feeling an energy and emotion from the crowd.

In recitals, you are naked before the audience - well, naked with your jacket and tails. The audience sees and hears the real person, not some role you are interpreting.

If you're not doing something right, you can feel it on stage, and if it isn't going well, the audience will tell you. A teacher can teach you sense memory and this and that, but until you get in front of an audience, you don't really feel it.

I always found that the closer I got to who I really am, on stage, the more they responded to it.

I think when I show my vulnerability, people relate with that because they know deep down inside that they have vulnerable moments, and they can really connect and identify with me on those things.

I feed off the audience a lot, their energy.

I've always wanted my fans to love me for coming out and performing.

Whenever I go onstage or in front of a camera, I always want to pour my soul out because I know I have a lot to offer.