Matt Skiba Quotes

When I performed at 'Open Mic U.K.' I had this connection with the audience that I'd never felt before, and I loved it. It was my first big thing, and looking out into the crowd... was just amazing.

Certainly, being on stage is a rush.

You don't realize how much you miss it until you get back onstage and feel that buzz.

I would love to do much more singing; it's just one of those things where I can't quite describe what it feels like when you're standing in front of a forty piece orchestra, and there's nothing between you and an audience but a microphone. It's like strapping yourself to a locomotive, and I love it.

There's such an adrenaline rush for me on stage and having all these people look at you. There's an adrenaline rush from not having things written down, too.

I miss physically going out on stage and performing. That's the ultimate high.

The adrenaline of performing live in front of an audience is a feeling that's hard to replicate.

Even when you're right in the middle of a tour and you've done 30 or 40 shows, you still get them butterflies in the stomach right before you go on stage.

I experience a high on stage that I get nowhere else. I feel its like going to the gym so I won't lose my skills.

Nothing beats performing live. For me, there's nothing better.

I'd say recording and playing on stage are two completely different things. Being up in front of all people is like jumping off a cliff into icy water. The recording process is a totally different energy.

When you're on stage, the real world just drops away for that time. It's pretty intense.

I've always enjoyed playing live onstage.

Those shows I did with Queen were pretty surreal. I was really excited and super-flattered, but intimidated at the same time.

The most fun moments are being on the stage and seeing how the crowd reacts to your music. The energy of the crowd that makes you just want to go in and keep doing it and be a part of this forever.

For me, doing a show, the excitement of singing live, and the possibility that you're not gonna be perfect - that's the thrill of it.

To play your music in front of the fans that love it, it's like the best feeling in the world.

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.

But I don't mind, I'm a bit of a touring animal. When I'm on tour that is the greatest thrill for me, playing to a live audience.

Just the fact that a thousand people in front of me were ready to hear me sing was one of the best feelings I can think of.

I had my first concert in front of 80,000 people at the International Soca Monarch Finals.

Going on Letterman is like going off the high dive. It's exhilarating, but after a while it wasn't the kind of thrill I enjoyed.

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.

You want to have butterflies in your stomach, because if you don't, if you walk out onstage complacent, that's not a good thing.

Yes, I mean, There's nothing like it. There is an added sense of pressure because of that, but there's also nothing like the thrill you get being in the same space with that audience right there and then. And when you do it, it's over.