Olivia Culpo Quotes

I get terrible butterflies. Before I go onstage, I'll have to freak out for five minutes. I scream. It seems to help!

I still get nervous about singing. I drink tea with honey and lemon before every concert. And I need to have scented candles in all of my hotel rooms.

I tend to do yoga before I go on stage, so that keeps me nice and calm.

My nerves before a gig got worse; I had terrible bad nerves all the time. Once we started... I was fine.

I find that I get nervous before I play. Even sound checks can give me anxiety and screw with my mind. But as long as I can play a little acoustic guitar backstage if I'm feeling nervous, so I don't have to walk in there cold turkey, I'll be fine.

It's good to have butterflies. And they always go away. The camera starts rolling and they go away and it's all good.

I have to be careful what I eat before going onstage, to avoid an upset stomach.

All these years later, I have almost no memory of the shows themselves. It's a blur. I remember my jogging runs better - that was my way of getting my energy together. I used to try to get to the arena as late as possible; otherwise, I'd just be pacing around, waiting to go on.

And when I perform on my own tour, I have to talk myself into going out on that stage every single night.

I don't wake up drenched in sweat because I haven't been on stage in years.

I used to psych myself up before the show and now I do the complete opposite: I psych myself down. It's 12:30 at night, you don't want some guy yelling at you. You want some guy just talking to you.

If I have a gig in the evening, I get 'the doom' at about 5 P.M., when I think I'm getting flu.

I'm too nervous to eat before I go onstage, and I'll usually eat out after the performance or when I get home at midnight.

I remember playing the Royal Albert Hall, and a guy would say, 'Ten minutes to stage time,' and I'd get so nervous.

No matter what - rehearsed, under-rehearsed, over-rehearsed, doubts about rehearsing - the first gig is always the first gig, and you put on your little praying hat, batten down the hatch, and do what you do.

I used to get nervous about three weeks before a gig... now I've managed to condense it down to a manageable ten minutes.

I dare not drink before a gig because I'll get tired and blow it. So I have to sit drinking tea in a caravan.

I like the adrenaline of playing improv - it makes me feel really calm.

I've never felt nervous in front of big crowds and in big stadiums.

I get so nervous before I go on stage that I can never eat very much, so I'm always completely starving afterwards and dying for a bowl of pasta.

Right before I go on stage, I'm absolutely terrified. My mind darts at many directions, but the center of me is going forward into the performance.

I tend to be very relaxed on stage, but the nerves have to come out somehow.

I listen to music before my competitions to get me pumped up. It helps me stay focused.

Losing control of your pick on stage sucks, so I scratch some deep X's into both sides of my pick with something sharp, like a dart.

The night before a show, I don't sleep. Really. I've been doing this for 30 years, and the night before a show, I still don't sleep.