The Weeknd Quotes

When I'm on stage, it's like a different world ... me connecting with the audience. It's a surreal experience.

One of the main reasons for wanting to perform live again was to have contact with that audience.

On any given night, what allows me to get to that higher ground is the audience.

I love playing live, I don't like studios all that much. I need the reaction of the audience.

I think I'm more entertainer than musician. I like to get with the crowd, make this night special for them.

I am always excited about playing in front of live audiences because I really enjoy it, for the most part.

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.

Playing live is such a total visceral experience, and really, as a musician, you're trained from the beginning to be a live performer.

There is nothing to compare with the instantaneous feedback a singer gets from the people sitting in front of him. That is where it all comes together - all the rehearsing and working to get everything just exactly right.

The live setting is always better for me. I usually thrive at live. I feel like having a band behind me and being able to interact with the crowd helps boost my energy up.

There is no buzz like performing for a live audience.

When you get the rush of live performing, it's hard to give that up.

Obviously, Iron Maiden is on a way bigger scale to British Lion, but as a musician playing live, it's just the adrenaline rush of playing in front of an audience that gives you that rush.

We spent night after night out there learning the art of entertaining a crowd.

The music comes alive when you actually perform it in front of a crowd.

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.

The adrenaline of performing on stage to a crowd - there's nothing like it.

I can't imagine playing a boring gig. Like, a boring audience without reaction, I will play against them.

It's a unique thing to stand in front of a crowd and sing your songs.

The energy that comes when you compel people to dance stays with you your whole career - whether you are playing to 100,000 people at Glastonbury or 1,000 kids in a club.

From then on, I realized this is what I want to do, what I'm supposed to do: Giving energy and receiving it back through applause. I love it. That's my world. I love it. I enjoy it. I live for it.

There's something interesting about playing live; you're in the moment, and I think it would be beneficial.

You can't explain the feeling of singing hit songs to an audience - it's like being a genuine sports star at the peak of their powers.

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.

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