Alison Mosshart Quotes

I really love live performing!

I am so excited to perform; I am so ready to perform; I love live performances! I think it's something so different from a track; live is just so unique and cool because the energy is just so different. I cannot wait to have live performances.

When I'm on stage, my interaction with the audience is something that really makes me come alive. It's a feeling like no other. The energy of the crowd fuels something new inside.

Songs always get better after you start playing them live.

You don't really know a song until you play it live.

Live stage is being made as you go along. You feel the energy. There's nothing like a live audience.

Being a dancer and a singer gave me some advantage with regards to having a stage presence. I always take my timing from the audience because they are half of my act.

When I'm on stage, it's such a spiritual moment that I hope, even when we hit 'Fallon,' you can feel that through the TV. I have this whole horn section that's part of New Power Generation; I have an amazing crew of musicians behind me. It's their energy, too.

It is amazing to sing in front of a live audience. It is incredible. The energy is awesome.

Studio work is very methodical, while live concerts must be very spontaneous.

As rewarding as a good film role can be, there is just nothing like getting up on a stage and taking an audience for a ride.

I enjoy making films, but my heart is in the stage. Every night you have to be on. There's no second take.

A live audience with live reactions feeds a different sort of acting that will then inform your film work, and vice versa.

You have to be ready to sing and perform at any time.

I feel like every time I go out, I want to do a good job. I want people to say that he's just as good at stand-up as he is in some of the movies I've seen him in, so I try to do the best every time I go out there.

Being onstage is like being rock star. Whereas if you're doing a movie, it's such a confined space. You know, you do a comedy, it's so hard, too, 'cause with a comedy, there's no vocal reaction, there's no energy that you get back that spurs you on to be funnier because everyone has to be quiet.

Classical stuff takes a lot of rehearsal time and preparation, but with stuff that involves improvisation, you can over-rehearse it and it gets stale. You don't want it to be too comfortable. In fact, a good sound check, a good rehearsal usually means a bad performance.

I take a lot of pride in my live show and put more energy there than I do in the studio.

At some shows, the set list gets changed while we are on stage. I know Ed thinks about the set very hard throughout the day in order to make the best show possible for the fans and for us.

I feel that I am a good actor.

I've done a lot of stage in my life, but I never had to dominate a stage for three hours.

I have always thought of myself as a performer first and way down the line as a recording artist.

When you're doing a play you get to go full speed ahead, all night, in front of an audience. It's a roller-coaster ride, responding to other actors, it feeds you.

I have, I think to do a play a year is very good if you can afford the time and the energy because it's difficult to do, it's really the actors medium of course, because you're really out there and nobody's yelling cut so, yeah I have.

When I write the set, I try to create something that will not only be interesting for the audience, but will have a flow for the band, too, so we don't get boring.