Naima Adedapo Quotes

When I'm on stage, it's like a different world ... me connecting with the audience. It's a surreal experience.

One of the main reasons for wanting to perform live again was to have contact with that audience.

But I love singing live. Nothing beats the feeling of going out on stage and going, 'I can really sing.'

When I performed at 'Open Mic U.K.' I had this connection with the audience that I'd never felt before, and I loved it. It was my first big thing, and looking out into the crowd... was just amazing.

Once you step on that stage, to me, that's where I feel most comfortable - performing live. So that's something would do each and every day of my life if I could.

When you are in the studio, you don't have anybody to feed off of; meanwhile, when you are playing live, you interact with people and you feel the energy in the room. When the crowd is going crazy, that definitely impacts your vocal performance. I prefer to sing live.

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

My live performance, it just comes from feeling an energy and emotion from the crowd.

It's a constant challenge to get your arrangement and musical expression across to a new audience, especially when you're playing live every night like we are.

There is no buzz like performing for a live audience.

Of course, you get exhausted. You want to pass out. I came close a couple of times. But you're filled with something, that feedback that comes from the audience.

Nothing feels better than going onstage and everybody is singing every word - and actually wanting to see you.

Performing in front of an audience gives you an extra ten per cent energy and the chance to react to the instant feedback.

When you get the rush of live performing, it's hard to give that up.

There's nothing like performing in front of a live crowd and just having people literally react to whatever it is you do, and there's nothing better than when you get that connection with the audience.

Obviously, Iron Maiden is on a way bigger scale to British Lion, but as a musician playing live, it's just the adrenaline rush of playing in front of an audience that gives you that rush.

I'm quite a reserved person, but when it comes to being on stage, something just clicks, and I sort of run around like a mad man. I find myself jumping in the crowd, climbing up on things, and dancing absolutely atrociously. I like to see the whites of everybody's eyes, jump around with everybody.

Sometimes you really rely on the audience to have a good time playing live, and sometimes you could have zero people or a thousand, and you'd feel exactly the same.

When I'm on stage, my interaction with the audience is something that really makes me come alive. It's a feeling like no other. The energy of the crowd fuels something new inside.

Just me onstage with a mike having an intimate relationship with the audience. I don't get nervous for that. I just get excited.

For me, doing a show, the excitement of singing live, and the possibility that you're not gonna be perfect - that's the thrill of it.

I don't get stage fright, I actually love the energy, I love the spontaneity, I love the adrenaline you get in front of a live audience, it actually really works for me.

There's something interesting about playing live; you're in the moment, and I think it would be beneficial.

A performance is only as good as the audience you are playing to. A lot of times you feed off of the audience, and we always try to give them all we've got and sometimes you don't get a lot back, but we've never been dead whenever we've performed.

It was great fun. We had gone on tour in between the sessions and reconnected with the audience and got a lot of energy back from them, a lot of positive energy.