Sophie B. Hawkins Quotes

Music - you need the give and take from the audience, the feeling of attention. It's not about me: it's about the music itself.

I have similar feelings, actually. The intimacy of a club: you can see the people, you can almost feel them; you can't beat that. People will say things, and shout out, it's almost like they're up on the bandstand with you.

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

But I always communicate with the audience. I never pretend like I'm just in my bedroom making a track. The whole point of doing a gig is, like, a feedback thing between you and the audience.

I just get such a connection from an audience. You play with them. I get mad at them. I yell at them. They yell at me. It's just fun.

Immediate, simultaneous connection between the audience and a performer is crucial to me. It's why I do what I do. Other things, like recording, are satisfying, but they're not the same. I love the connection I get with the audience when I'm sitting behind that piano.

The stage is the best experience in the world. It's a great compliment to be able to share the music, because people can hear my album but they don't get to make the connection in the same way as when it's one-to-one.

I love seeing live music.

It's easy listening to a record, but a live performance is so personal and real.

That connectivity with the audience that I get to enjoy, that's my church. It's not one of ego or anything like, 'I'm on the stage and the lights.' It's just this connectivity, and it's always been that way for me.

The most amazing thing is being onstage and watching the audience sing every song lyric for lyric.

Music is a conversation between the audience and me, and I love that about my profession.

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

But duets are a lot of fun, I'd love to do another one.

Many more people saw me on TV than will ever get to see me on stage, but I do love being in the same room as the people I'm telling the story to.

I love playing big rooms. There's nothing like it. It's a power trip.

I love knowing that people are connecting to my lyrics, my music and me.

Music allows the great opportunity to play with people who turned you on and you love.

I really love live performing!

Some artists see a gig as an audience worshipping them. I think it is about having a great time together. I have a part as the singer. An audience has a part. Playing a gig doesn't make me high on myself.

All my life I wanted to play music with love to every member of the audience.

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

Music is about communication, and the chemistry between an audience and the orchestra is absolutely essential; the performance does not exist in a bubble.

Playing clubs is the ultimate - you see the faces; you hear the 'clicking' glasses - I love all that atmosphere and seeing people's mouths singing the words to the songs.

I love the rehearsal process in the theatre, and the visceral sense of contact and communication with a live audience.