Alessia Cara Quotes

Nobody was listening when I learned how to play music. But there's something about being on stage, talking to the audience, looking at them and smiling, that's always been difficult for me. I'm a lot more comfortable now, but there are still moments of awkwardness.

In general, I'm pretty shy and nervous about a lot of things. For me to get on stage for the first time took so many times at an open mic before I finally got on stage and did it.

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 conquered my stage fright a long time ago. In my line of work, it's kind of a pre-requisite that you not feel bad about looking stupid in front of a lot of people.

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

I used to get very nervous before a concert. It's okay when you are in a band. You can kind of disappear. But when it's just you... yes, that was difficult. I would not say it is easy now. But when you do it for a long time, you do learn to cope.

The first time I got onstage was when I was about 5 years old. It was at a church social, and I had a poem to recite.

In high school, I was too shy to perform. It's one thing to get laughs from your family, to be funny at parties and in class. It's another thing to get up on the stage.

I was 4 years old when I sang in public for the very first time.

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

When I was five or six, I asked to sing at a big family party, and ever since I got up there in front of everyone in my suit - it had a blue collar, like in 'Scarface' - I had the bug.

I'm nervous performing because it's such a weird thing to do, standing on stage demanding people's attention.

Getting up in front of an audience is my biggest motivation.

I've been singing since I was a little kid, but 'Sierra' was my first time singing on camera, which was definitely intimidating at first.

My dad was listening to me noodle around on the guitar in the house and sing, and he was like, 'Man, you're funny, and you sound good when you do that. You should do that at a bar.' I had stage fright, so I was like, 'No, Dad. Leave me alone.'

I don't feel like I'm the type of performer who's going to knock your socks off. I'm trying to get over my nerves.

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.

The first time I performed musically, I threw up.

I'm kind of shy, and I think that I take that out by performing in front of a lot of people. That's how I get out my shyness.

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

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

I don't think that just because you go on stage you are an exhibitionist.

I had a kind of artrock band called Peanut for a while, which eventually helped me over my fear of singing. That was a big step for me. I never dreamed I could sing songs in front of people.

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

The first time I got up in front of an audience was terror, abject terror, which continued for another four or five years. There still is, a little bit.