Labrinth Quotes

You always hope an audience will respond to something you've done, but there's no way of knowing whether or not they will.

I don't think I'm an entertainer. I never think, 'Wow, I can't wait to get the crowd moving.' Some of my favorite bands never moved an inch.

When you put the musical in front of an audience, you get to see how the audience reacts.

I take a lot of pride in my live show and put more energy there than I do in the studio.

I really love live performing!

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 love to go on tour and perform. I love all the parts of the process.

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 love playing live, I don't like studios all that much. I need the reaction of the audience.

From the first time you can look in the paper and you accept that you're the entertainment for some people that night, it becomes so much more enjoyable to play live.

It's thrilling to be onstage and to not know, literally, what the next moment is going to bring. To just submit to the not-knowing-ness of it.

People root for me in such a way that when they come to a show, the experience of not knowing what's about to happen is a great thing.

Nothing is real until you walk out on stage.

The first time I stepped on stage and I started singing, I knew that I wanted to do it for the rest of my life.

I think that those moments before a performer plays are the moments when the potential for something to be created may - or may not - arrive.

I think from doing so many live shows it gives you a real appreciation of being present. You don't know what's going to happen, you don't know what is around the corner.

It's hard to pinpoint highlights on tour because they're the gigs really. The whole day becomes about the show. From the time you wake up you are slowly building up to that.

As much as only playing clubs can become tedious, performing in huge venues can also become off-putting. To go from one to the other feels great. And sometimes playing clubs can be even more stressful, because you really have to think about what you're going to tell the audience between songs.

My history is really playing live - not writing or recording.

My fondest memories were watching the Beastie Boys get prepped to come on stage. They had a lot of antics and they play a lot of basketball... then they were giving out cameras to the crowd, and performing from the bleachers. The most important thing I learned was that you control your crowd, not the other way around.

The thrill of performing - that's something that hasn't changed for me. That simultaneous joy of creating something and sharing it with an audience - it's the same now as it was then, when it was just my cousins' birthday party.

When you're onstage, you're acutely aware of the reaction of a particular group of people, because it's like a wave.

I always say, when you're onstage you can't please everybody. I'm sure there are people who may not take to what I do, but that's okay. Thank God the majority are in my corner.

The reason why I hate working in theatre is the tedium of memorisation. But once that is done, then you feast on this never-ending meal. If you play it correctly, every night is fraught with very high stakes that are very difficult to find in everyday life.

The interesting thing about doing a play is to find a way to make it fresh and do it as though you were doing it for the first time.