Hope Sandoval Quotes

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.

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.

I like performing live more than anything. I get a little bit afraid in the studio.

Before every performance, I think I am about to keel over.

I'd say it's harder to play with an acoustic guitar strapped over your shoulder for a few hundred people than it is to play in front of thousands with an entire bombastic band behind you.

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'd say it's harder to play with an acoustic guitar strapped over your shoulder for a few hundred people than it is to play in front of thousands with an entire bombastic band behind you. After all these years, I still get nervous in front of people. I can't help it.

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.

When I first played live, I would shake with fear, and my voice would tremble. But I do it for the love of it. There's nothing I love more than playing live.

I haven't been really nervous about a gig in a long time.

I've been in a talent show, yeah. They are terrifying. The most nerve-wracking experience of your life, I'd say.

Solo concerts are murder, I find; I don't like doing them.

But I love singing live. Nothing beats the feeling of going out on stage and going, 'I can really sing.'

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.

I'm never comfortable at theatre opening nights. If it's my own production I'm too wound up to be able to enjoy the performance and too wary to enjoy the event as a social occasion.

Showing your movie to an audience... it's like your kid doing a piano recital. 'Just let it not fail. Please.'

I'm nervous whenever I perform.

There's some anxiety the 30 minutes before the show starts. But once you step on stage and face the people, everything goes away, and you have fun and enjoy the audience.

I'm not saying I look cool, but every single time I go onstage, it is a fail if I don't feel like I'm going to pass out at least twice.

I get more anxious than nervous before a concert.

I don't really like to play live. I don't like to be on stage. I feel very self-conscious.

There's a pressure regardless of that to do a good show.

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

From the first time you can look in the paper and you accept that you're the entertainment for some people that night, it becomes so much more enjoyable to play live.

Reading a piece of poetry with no beat in front of 20 people is way more challenging than rocking for 10,000 people.