John Rzeznik Quotes

Live shows were always religion for us. We never played a show - whether it was in front of 15 people or 15,000 - where it wasn't everything we had that night.

I really enjoy doing the live stuff.

Every crowd is different. But that's something that I enjoy, and you can feel it in the first few seconds when you walk out on stage. You know, how a crowd is.

I like the energy of live performance.

I prefer to connect with fans from the stage. Like, I don't have a Twitter page, or anything like that. So for me, that's what the show is about. For me - is a way to interact with fans; being up onstage and showing them, through music - which is all I really know - the best way to say thank you.

I think energy is the most important thing that we can give to people as performers. Anything else is a little bit pretentious. But energy is not.

The Oscars is a sport. There's the excitement of watching something live, as it happens.

Being on the stage in New York is always exciting because you feel like you're part of the life of the city.

There is nothing like being on stage.

Something magic happens when I get to a club or get on stage.

I love the you-never-know-what's-going-to-happen aspect of doing concerts.

I would say, maybe from five years on, I sang on stages constantly. That's what I call my natural habitat: It's a place where I feel most like myself and the most confident, the most excited.

Being on stage is, like, my favorite. The immediate gratification. That's my favorite.

For me, there's nothing like performing.

I'm not nervous coming back to my old audience. I'm looking forward to it. That's really what I do; that's my day job.

It's nice to watch great acts perform their material. But I can't say that it tweaks any desire within.

It doesn't matter if you load it on a DVD, if you videotape it, it doesn't matter. There's nothing more exciting than being at a live show.

Nothing beats looking out to a sweaty, packed house full of fans.

Get your popcorn ready, 'cause I'm gonna put on a show.

Being onstage and performing, the high of that, and people coming to see you, and getting to make them laugh - that's what gets me hyped up. It's a nervous excitement.

A lot of energy and excitement - that's what a lot of my shows are, energy and excitement.

Very rarely I create things and feel like I don't want to recreate them in a live setting. It's a completely different world, but at the same time that's where I've always come from. Enjoying that give-and-take from a live audience, there's a large part of me that's looking forward to it, and creating that relationship again.

The thing that I love most about being on stage is making people happy...It's my job to do that, and I enjoy it.

One of the things on a very practical level as an actor or actress is that when you do a play, you do the entire story every time you do it. You have eight shows a week. You have a rehearsal process of four to five to six weeks. And then once you're in performance, everybody else goes away and you're there with your fellow actors and the audience and the material and your life becomes about that. And you go through the story from the beginning to the end every time you do it and depending on how long you do it, that's where the craft comes in.

Convicts are the best audience I ever played for.