Phoebe Bridgers Quotes

The night before a show, I don't sleep. Really. I've been doing this for 30 years, and the night before a show, I still don't sleep.

Very few people know what it's like being onstage looking out at a sea of bodies.

And when I perform on my own tour, I have to talk myself into going out on that stage every single night.

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.

People don't know what it's like standing up there onstage, when you have a wall of people smiling at you.

When I got on stage, I would have a rush of adrenaline; everybody gets it. Normally after the first night it becomes more controllable, and as long as I could ride the wave, I was still in charge.

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.

Playing in front of a crowd is something you learn. You accept it and then you start to relish it.

I remember my first ever gig in town, I was very nervous. I had a big red shiny face. But that all disappeared after 30 seconds and I settled down and got a great lift from that.

I get nervous every time, for every single performance, before getting up on that stage.

I don't enjoy public performances and being up on a stage. I don't enjoy the glamour. Like tonight, I am up on stage and my feet hurt.

Backstage, I get sleepy, and want to curl up and snooze. I never get nervous, whatever the event. I feel quite detached until I walk on stage, and then some gear inside me clicks and off I go like a wind up doll.

I love performing, and I love being in front of people. I love the pressure you get and the pleasure performing brings.

People think I look odd onstage. But the way I deal with being incredibly nervous is by concentrating really hard.

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.

I'm actually sometimes nervous right before a performance, but as soon as I'm on the stage I'm like, 'okay, we're gonna rock this baby.'

I don't really feel any different when I get up on stage.

Once I get out onstage, it's the same sort of basic production that it is anywhere else. But I might be a little bit aware that there might be people I know out there, who wondered where I was.

I don't feel nervous or fearful when I'm on stage.

You get more nervous in front of a lot of people. That's why, when you play a concerto, you play with a small orchestra, in some place where you don't feel that it is as important as Carnegie Hall.

I was honoured when they asked me to appear at the president's birthday rally in Madison Square Garden. There was like a hush over the whole place when I came on to sing 'Happy Birthday,' like if I had been wearing a slip, I would have thought it was showing or something. I thought, 'Oh, my gosh, what if no sound comes out!'

When you get onstage, you can see everyone in the audience's face, down to the detail. You can see who may or may not be yawning.

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

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.