Cailee Spaeny Quotes

My dream has been to have my rock band behind me, play live, and entertain.

The more guitars we have onstage the better, as I'm concerned.

I want to grow as a vocalist, and I want to really kill every single show and just become better.

We're a live band. It's what we do best.

During a big rock show, you can flub a few things and nobody will hear it, because it gets buried under everything else.

I think generally playing live is a crap idea. So much of stage work is the presentation of personality, and I've never been interested in that.

The band's filter, but playing live is a lot of fun.

With a rock band, you play the same things over and over and over.

It was a wonderful experience to live the life for a year; to spend all day doing Shakespeare and then do a play in the evening.

If you can play well in the studio, you can play well on stage.

So what's so enticing about doing a play is that you get to do that thing that got you into acting in the first place... There's a real attraction to being able to play, to just play. And that's something that theater affords you.

I'm in the studio for hours in that tiny little box, and really, the performing part is what I'm most excited about.

I have always thought of myself as a performer first and way down the line as a recording artist.

Onstage I'm the one in control - I'm not at the mercy of how an editor chooses to put the scene together later. I can do things onstage that I would never do in real life. It's very freeing.

I'm thinking of putting together an all-star band. I definitely have a bit of a rock fantasy.

From the time I was five years old, theater was all I knew. I did community theater; I went to theater school. It's like going to the gym as an actor: every single night, you have to recreate the illusion of the first time, so you really have to listen and connect and stay in the moment for an hour and a half - with no breaks.

I didn't know what to expect when we first started touring behind 'Southeastern' because you don't want to lull anybody to sleep or lose their attention. But it's really been incredible how the crowds seem to be just as excited for the slow, sad songs as they are for the old rockers.

Eventually, I began singing in various shows. It was then that I started appreciating the breadth and depth of Hindi film music.

Performing live was something that I had to really work at.

I'm hoping to work on some original songs and to keep performing in front of a crowd as much as I can.

I think that it's crucial. I think that playing live, if you want to be an artist - that's what artists do.

I really wanted to make a record that would feel fun to play live.

I definitely enjoy performing on stage with The Roots.

If you're in a rock band, you're never too tame.

I started off as a bar band. We played ZZ Top, Bob Seger, Waylon Jennings, the Rolling Stones - everything and anything people wanted to hear. You're not really selling yourself back then; you're selling beer.