Miyavi Quotes

From the stage, I can reach a large audience, and you learn from being on stage how much a song reaches, what extent of the crowd a song can reach. I write in a way that can reach most of the audience, but I also wanted to have truly intimate moments as well, many intimate moments, more so than the big moments.

I'm at my best when I'm being genuine and sincere, and reading my material straight up to an audience that wants to listen.

I have no interest in playing 'perfect.' To me, it's more about being an entertainer. Having a connection with the audience.

The reason that you dance and sing is to make the audience feel like they're dancing and singing. As long as you're having fun with it and giving it 100 percent, they're gonna feel that.

Singing is about telling a story. When you are onstage, you get to be your own self... When acting, you're someone else.

Acting is all about honesty. If you can fake that, you've got it made.

Music is the way I understand how to communicate now, the way that I've learned how to communicate... but it will eventually have to go beyond that. You see, I've realised that music is not what keeps people involved - it's the attitude behind the music.

I'm not trying to be romantic. I think you can tell when people are trying to be sexy onstage. When I was doing 'All the Way,' I was really thinking about my wife. People don't know my personal experience, but they can tell it's an honest interpretation.

Acting is doing, because everything you say or do is some kind of an action, some kind of a verb. You're always connected to the other person through some kind of action.

Singing well has always been important to me, but the most important factor is the connection to the audience.

I like to feel that something's alive in acting, like something's really going on.

I know that if I can't move people, then I have no business being an actor.

Intimacy comes from being yourself on the stage and making the audience feel, without trying, that you're sittin' down there with 'em, playing, and that can happen in a big hall, if you have a good audience that want to listen.

I would say three-quarters of what I do depends on the sincerity of it. You can croak, but if you croak good, they'll still listen.

The connective tissue between storytelling, advice, and comedy is passion.

Acting is an emotion which has to be felt. Some feel it, some don't!

I have an outline but never use a teleprompter. That kills the connection.

The talking shows allow me to come out of my cave and that's why those shows go on for so long. I hate walking off stage. Sometimes I walk off and I miss them as I'm walking off the stage. I wonder if they'll let me go another hour. That's why I do it: to communicate, to get points across.

I love connecting with the audience, and there's more ways than one to do that.

On some level in acting, what you're trying to find is truth, because when it's true is when it's also funny.

They see us interacting with people, they see us doing serious interviews, they see us having fun, and when you're conversing with someone, you get a much clearer impression of who that person is than if they are just reading into a news piece.

Action is drama. If we cannot make the audience laugh, smile or cry with us, we are not actors.

Acting is all about truth and honesty, and the sensitivity that's capable of transporting you.

Out there in the spotlight you're a million miles away and every ounce of energy you try to give away as the sweat pours out your body like the music that you play.

Things change and work changes. Right now I like the idea of enveloping a space and getting messages across that connect to the world in ways that seem familiar but are different.