Mark McGrath Quotes

I feel joy when I do a great show. I get fun out of making other people happy. I'm a terminal people-pleaser. I suppose that's why I'm a frontman.

There's nothing like performing for a live audience.

I just try to do things on stage that I think the audience would enjoy. And I try to draw on and add to acts that I've enjoyed watching.

I like entertaining people. I like being on stage. I like being in the life. This is what I do. This is the only thing I know how to do besides rob people and fight. Even when I was robbing people, I was entertaining them. But that's just what I love doing.

Mark Twain was so good with crowds that he became, in competition with singers and dancers and actors and acrobats, one of the most popular performers of his time. It is so unusual, and so psychologically unlikely, too, for a great writer to be a great performer, too.

I'm a performer. That's what I do. That and making money - it's the passion and the care factor for the people that support your passion, the people that support you, it's the kind of people that go crazy and love your stuff.

When I'm on stage, my interaction with the audience is something that really makes me come alive. It's a feeling like no other. The energy of the crowd fuels something new inside.

I am a performer; that's what I like to do.

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

I'm a total performer.

There's nothing like spending an evening with an audience every night.

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

Performing live is the greatest high in the world. That's why I do what I do.

I really don't think of myself as a singer. I think of myself as an entertainer, and the best place I do it is onstage.

When I'm on stage, all is right with the world.

When I use music on stage, the prime directive is to entertain the public, so it is different.

There is no buzz like performing for a live audience.

I don't get on stage and give a social diatribe. I am a performer and an entertainer.

There's something about being in front of a live audience that's fun. It's a really interesting, very electric, very alive, and intense experience, and you can't get it anywhere else. And I've been doing it since I was 23, so it's part of my being - it's part of my fabric as a person.

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

Doing my Broadway show '700 Sundays' reminded me how much I love working in front of an audience.

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.

Performing live is a part of who I am.

Live performances are exhilarating, especially when performing for a young crowd.

I feel like I'm an entertainer.