Rick Nielsen Quotes

They didn't have a problem with me being wild and crazy when it came time to fill the arenas.

I love being a Go-Go. It definitely has its ups and downs, and we have a very intense energy with each other.

Once you step on stage, the people are actually looking to be transformed. That's why they showed up; that's why they spent some money. And great performances do that.

Honey Singh has tremendous energy on stage.

Just giving the people a great show, leaving it all on the stage. Like when I'm finished I don't want to go home with nothing, I want to leave it all there on the stage, that's what I'm thinking about before I hit the stage.

I try and put on a show for the crowd and make sure they enjoy it.

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.

I just get so hype - I love performing. I love performing whether someone's there or someone isn't there.

The first rock stars were incredibly theatrical. Little Richard and Chuck Berry and Elvis Presley - they were theater artists.

I like playing in front of the crowd and get them into it.

Acting is a big ambition, but I still have a professional wrestling world to conquer.

I'm a live performer, through and through. That's when I really get to shine.

I love being onstage, whether it's dancing or acting - there's just something about being onstage.

Being an emcee onstage is mostly about crowd control, about monitoring energy levels.

What I care about is making sure that when the people watching me put their head to their pillow, I'm the last thing they think about. Not because I hit the coolest moves, not because I'm putting my body on the line for their entertainment, but because I'm captivating.

The stuff that is done on Broadway is hardly theatre. It is part magic show, part rock concert, and part conjuring things.

You can call us what you want, but at the end of the day, we're entertainers.

There were people that grabbed you just by talking, and that's what I loved about professional wrestling when I started out. That's why I'm already so good. That's why people literally hang on the edge of their seats when I have a mic because they want to know what I'm going to say.

I fight for my fans. I love putting on a good show for them, and I feel that they enjoy a good stand-up game.

I think the most important thing to putting on a good show is to always mix things up. Sometimes we wear makeup; other times we don't. The point is, you'll never get the same Avenged show twice. I think it's really important to be theatrical. I mean, look at Iron Maiden!

I'd love to entertain people forever.

At heart, I was always a performer, not a competitor.

Any sort of performance was always what I was really born to do.

Actors and singers share common ground in that they both express something.

I've always enjoyed acting, and there's more than a degree of it involved in singing live on stage.