Lil Xan Quotes

I always have gotten nervous before every show. But the second I step onstage, it's all gone. It's sort of like an adrenaline rush for me.

Getting on stage and performing and standing under lights is such an unsettling experience - in a good and bad way - but it's the only place I can go to feel comfortable.

If I'm confident in my ability to do something, I never get nervous about it. If I was to get up and try to sing in front of 50,000 people, I'd fall to pieces. But boxing, I find it really comfortable.

My first-night jitters are so bad, I can't even hold a tea cup, but once I am over that, I get really into it.

It took me a long time to be alright with smiling onstage.

In a strange way, I'm way more comfortable onstage than anywhere else.

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

I've never really been one to get what they call stage fright so much.

I can sing in front of people. I can go on a TV show, live, and not feel like I'm going to throw up.

I've never felt nervous in front of big crowds and in big stadiums.

Performing didn't feel comfortable until I was about 17. I loved to sing, but I always said I would never perform because I was too scared.

When I first started out, I was really, really scared when I performed before an audience. I'd look over their heads.

I can't remember if I had any stage fright at the first Bowl. But I did the second time.

I had big problems with stage fright in the past. I think, slowly, as I've gotten better at it, I've started to enjoy it. It's made me a more confident person in my normal life. I can open up and be myself in situations that used to be abject terror.

I get nervous all the time. The only time I'm not nervous is onstage, which is weird.

I never experienced getting nervous on stage. I think I was most comfortable there.

It feels like the more I'm out there in the public eye, the more criticism I get. You need to have confidence - that's what it takes to walk out there and sing a song in front of a huge group of people.

I used to be afraid of looking at the audience.

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

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

I was always an exhibitionist. I liked it when everyone laughed. But I didn't do plays in high school. I was too nervous.

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.'

For many years, I didn't even like the idea of doing a one-person play. Public speaking got me past that. I've always been good at public speaking, but I never really enjoyed it. Then I started to really enjoy it, and that's made all the difference.

My mother always told me before shows to stand up and show them whose little boy you are.

I still get really nervous, though, before each performance. It kind of hits about 15 minutes before we go onstage - sometimes I don't even want to go on. But once I'm onstage I'm fine.