Jon Secada Quotes

I think I've been asked a lot more than most TV producers to go on-camera. But I just do what I do and don't think about the package.

We have a lot of American TV in Australia. I grew up watching 'Seinfeld,' 'The Simpsons' and those prime time TV shows over the years that feature grown-ups and high school kids. We had a saturation of American voices.

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.

I had all the material for a long time, but I was just too busy. Sometimes we'd sit around at home and sing some of these songs at family things, and everyone always said I should record them.

I have a hard time watching myself! Usually I do the work, and then I leave it. So I pretend like I'm not on TV every week.

Every time I give a straight answer and read it in a magazine, I say, 'Ouch.' One day I'd like to talk to a psychoanalyst about why celebrities reveal so much of themselves in interviews.

I normally don't concern myself with, 'Will audiences like me or like my character?'

When I first went on the 'Johnny Carson show', the band did not want me, and Carson did not want me. If the audience had not received 'Tiptoe' so overwhelmingly, I do not believe Carson would have let me come over to be on the panel after the song.

When I signed up for 'Dancing with the Stars,' I was nervous. If I threw everything off, there are 10-15 million people watching, and that would be a negative viewpoint of deaf people, and I didn't want that.

I don't really think about the fact that a lot of people are watching 'DSDS' or about the way I should phrase my sentences.

People started to ask me, 'Do you really play guitar?' They thought it was a prop. It was just interesting, because of all the imaging stuff.

I find broadcast intensely stressful, to the extent that perversely, I've never seen anything I've written actually broadcast on television. So, the audience response is something which I became aware of gradually.

I really never watched myself on TV.

There is nothing like the buzz of singing one of your songs during a show and hearing your fans singing with you.

My first live performance was when I was in the military. I went to some bar, and they had open mics. You could just sign up and perform. Nobody cared. Nobody liked it.

What people think when they see me on TV is that they're experiencing me but they're not.

Performing live is difficult. But nobody's forcing us to do it.

You never really see me, unless its accidental, in the tabloids or any of those magazines.

I knew that if I just came out as a singer, people would just be criticizing my voice.

I'm not really concerned about being liked on stage - I'm a bit more concerned about it off stage.

I've got a bad rap for not being more charismatic between songs.

A lot of people had misconceptions that I throw tantrums and am very arrogant, and I knew 'Bigg Boss' will change that. You cannot pretend for 105 days in front of more than 100 cameras. I know myself, and I was confident that the world will also get to know and understand me through this show.

Every single time I perform 'River,' I just feel a huge rush of adrenaline and energy, and I remember writing it.

My first media interview was when I was a high school freshman and I was set to compete at state champs. The interview was the first occasion people had heard me on TV. When I watched back the recording on TV, I thought, 'Wow, is that what I sound like?' I didn't like the sound of my voice.

Live performance is everything. First of all, I have terrible stage fright. But beyond that, once the music starts, it's OK.