Lupe Fiasco Quotes

Nothing beats looking out to a sweaty, packed house full of fans.

As a player, you love to play in front of a big crowd.

Rock on out.

I like the energy of live performance.

I love live music and I love to see people's faces when I'm performing.

I'd rather play in front of a full house than an empty crowd.

We'll go to South America and play to 60,000. It's insane.

The roar of the crowd when you come out for a final is like nothing else: when 15,000 people are cheering you, a lot of adrenaline goes right through you.

I just get so hype - I love performing. I love performing whether someone's there or someone isn't there.

I like to listen to the crowd, I really do. The crowd helps give me that extra boost of adrenaline.

And watching Ed, he's really coming into his own doing some new things onstage I've never seen him do. He's really getting into it, putting 120 percent into the show. We feel comfortable and excited.

There's a lot of people who don't want anything from me but to laugh and have a good time. You see them at the show and they like - they dress up to come see your show and stuff. And they pack these auditoriums and it's a lot of fun, man. It's like, this is how I started, and it's still fun for me.

I never have any problem getting enthusiastic with a good song and a good band.

You move differently than you do when you're filling the stage at Radio City. You have to be bigger than life there.

The most remarkable moment is when you go out on the stage and you hear the applause of the audience!

It's been amazing getting to go from city to city and perform for thousands of people. It's an amazing feeling, and the energy is crazy.

Having an audience is almost like plugging me into an electrical outlet. People feed me so much of their energy. We have a great time. It's all about the fellowship.

I put on the best live show, the absolute best live show I can possibly can.

Children are the most wonderful audiences. What's struck me most is that that they watch it so silently, until the end when they shriek and shout and clap.

Every crowd is different. But that's something that I enjoy, and you can feel it in the first few seconds when you walk out on stage. You know, how a crowd is.

I think energy is the most important thing that we can give to people as performers. Anything else is a little bit pretentious. But energy is not.

I'm ready for some rock 'n' roll action.

I need that on stage. I need a burst of life. That's entertainment for me.

Live shows were always religion for us. We never played a show - whether it was in front of 15 people or 15,000 - where it wasn't everything we had that night.

When I was younger I always thought, 'If I were ever a comedian I'd make it like a rock concert.' I wanted to generate that type of enthusiasm and excitement.