David Draiman Quotes

Growing up, I was so inspired by front men like Mick Jagger, Freddie Mercury, and Kurt Cobain - real showmen that put on 'a performance' every time they walk out on stage - so it's important for me to feel like I deliver that.

Usher is amazing. He's perfection to me as a performer. He gets down.

Cyndi Lauper knows how to work a crowd.

As far as I'm concerned, I'm just a guitar player, and my job is to go out there and play and entertain and do my thing.

In the summer of 1991, I was on the first Lollapalooza tour. Nightly, I would watch Jane's Addiction singer Perry Farrell go out in front of a sea of people and within minutes have all of them in the palm of his hand. I have never seen anything like it since.

My job, if someone picks me, is to come and perform. That's what we do for a living.

Joel? He's the rock star! When you see Joel step on stage... he's born to be a rock star.

I'm a live performer, through and through. That's when I really get to shine.

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.

It's fun to look at people that are so good at acting that aren't actors, like David Bowie creating a mystique about rock n' roll.

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

I really love live performing!

I think every film actor secretly wants to be a rock star as well; just that part of the job which requires the extrovert in you. Even if you've become an actor because it's your way of hiding in plain sight, there's still part of you which has that craving.

I'm a total performer.

I see myself as like the lead singer of a band or something.

It's weird but I've never really been the type to have fixations on the leading man actor. I've always been drawn more to the rock star. I love a guy on the microphone commanding an audience.

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

I'm a normal guy at heart. But on stage, they don't pay me for normal.

I'm a performer. We don't retire.

We're entertainers, not just singers!

A rock'n'roll band needs to be able to get under people's skin. You should be able to clear the room at the drop of a hat.

I think he's an entertainer. I would prefer if he were a performer.

I went with a friend to see Frank Sinatra in Las Vegas, in the last year that he was performing. He wasn't necessarily on top form, but the way he could connect with an audience and the way he communicated through the lyrics was something I hadn't ever really seen before.

Usher is so innovative - he's a great performer, a great entertainer.

I feel like I am a true entertainer and performer.