Bill Kaulitz Quotes

Before every performance, I think I am about to keel over.

I developed in my head that I'm never any better than my last concert or the last time I played, so it's like an audition each time. You get nervous just before going onstage. I still have that, but I think it's more like concern. You're concerned about the people - like meeting your in-laws for the first time.

I'm nervous before all shows.

Every time I got to play a show, even if it's already sold out, I'm so scared no one's going to come.

Even when you're right in the middle of a tour and you've done 30 or 40 shows, you still get them butterflies in the stomach right before you go on stage.

Auditioning is the most terrifying thing I've ever done. There must have been four or five of them where I completely froze up and walked out of the room. My palms get sweaty just thinking about it.

I haven't been really nervous about a gig in a long time.

You want to have butterflies in your stomach, because if you don't, if you walk out onstage complacent, that's not a good thing.

I definitely get nervous about if I'm going to forget the words to the songs or something. And I don't enjoy being the center of attention for an hour straight - I think that's really stressful.

I get more anxious than nervous before a concert.

There's a pressure regardless of that to do a good show.

Sometimes I get butterflies before I get up on stage.

When you walk out onstage in front of 65,000 people, it can bring you to tears.

I always get nervous before a scene.

I feel like it's harder to perform in front of a smaller crowd sometimes still than it is a larger crowd.

For me, for every single job, I don't care if it is a reading, I don't care if it is a guest spot on a TV show, or a film. I always get the heebie jeebies.

I always get nervous before a gig, so I look over my writing, trying not to fantasise about all the things that could go horribly wrong.

It's not so much that I don't enjoy playing live - that's one of the best parts of playing music - it's that it's nerve-racking with 300, 500 people watching.

Under the lights, there's a lot of pressure, my first big show. The mental pressure drained me out a bit. I was fit and healthy, but I was thinking, 'Why am I tired?' There are so many things that go on in there.

I feel nervous before performing in live concerts, but it does not last more than five minutes.

But even so, I still get nervous before I go onstage.

I am certainly suffering from a modicum of performance anxiety.

I'd forget the piece just before I went out to do the concerto, the panic was too great. This was not anything that gave me pleasure. This was fulfilling somebody else's dream.

The first time I performed musically, I threw up.

I do have the odd dream where I'm on stage and I've completely forgotten what I'm meant to be performing - so they are more nightmares than dreams.