Mike Dirnt Quotes

I've never seen a performer create electricity with an audience like James Brown. He's got everybody in his hands and whatever he wants to do with them, he does it. It's amazing. I've always thought he was underrated.

I love performing in front of people, no matter where they come from or what language they speak.

I am a real ham. I love an audience. I work better with an audience. I am dead, in fact, without one.

Wrestling was like stand-up comedy for me. Every night I had a live audience of 25,000 people to win over. My goal was never to be the loudest or the craziest. It was to be the most entertaining.

Ever since I was 2 or 3, I loved to perform for people. I would walk up to another table in a restaurant and crack a joke, sing a song, do a dance, or something entertaining, and the 'audience' would almost always smile and laugh.

I love performing for the crowd. Maybe that's what it is. I'm a crowd pleaser.

There were people that grabbed you just by talking, and that's what I loved about professional wrestling when I started out. That's why I'm already so good. That's why people literally hang on the edge of their seats when I have a mic because they want to know what I'm going to say.

Why would you get up there and bore people? I never have figured that out. These people are supposedly in the entertainment industry, and they finally get up there to that podium and they become the most boring people in the world.

Strangely enough I'm better on a stage. I love that I feel like I blossom in front of a whole bunch of people.

Frontmen come alive when they come onstage.

I'm not like a performer type.

I had no musical or athletic ability, and I wasn't particularly good looking. Comedy was something I could do for attention.

I really enjoy doing the live stuff.

Onstage I have a natural chutzpa that audiences like. I'm out there.

Tom is the most eccentric person I have ever worked with. We get on very well and I am most impressed with how he can hold an audience in the palm of his hand.

I say what's on my mind and have a good time. I try to give people a show. It's all about giving people a good time once you get out under those lights.

I began to work the stage and get the audience into it. I also learned how to have fun out there. It is something I will never forget.

You instinctively discover how to entertain an audience.

I do belong on stage.

Every time I get in front of an audience, I do the best I can. I really don't look at it like, you know, 'This is gonna be this crowd, or that crowd.' If anything, I think about the demographics only because of what songs will entertain more than others.

Cyndi Lauper knows how to work a crowd.

I would love to do more on the stage; having actual contact with the audience is great. You can give them a good seeing to!

I always had the idea that I wanted to perform. I love being the center of attention - and I always love talking about myself.

I don't know what else I would do. I love entertaining people, I love communicating, I love an audience. I'm a real artist, right from the bottom of my toes to the top of my head.

It takes both courage and talent to stand up in front of fellow human beings and make them crack a smile, and at the same time keep it clean.