The star, the person who's on the mic, always gets seen.
We've gotten to play shows where I'm the headliner, so people are buying tickets to come see me, and that's when you really learn, 'Okay, who's listening to this music?' That and social media. But I couldn't feel luckier about the fan base that is starting to grow... People have just been super, super supportive and awesome.
And I get so nervous now when it's not my show, like I'm not the headliner, because I know that those fans are there for another artist. Many people might not know an upcoming artist, but I've grown to like those shows because if I can control a crowd that doesn't know me, I'm doing my job as an entertainer. I have to rise to the occasion.
If it's an evening with Toto, that usually means there's no opening act.
You know, I'm playing the Mirage in Vegas, the main room... About 5 percent of all comics end up as the main headliner on the Vegas Strip, so that's a big deal for me. Getting to do my stand-up the way I have this summer is really what I've dreamed of since I was about 10 years old.
It was a big deal for us to be on Ozzfest, especially as one of the main headliners and being the band that wasn't announced: the mystery band. We'd never played the second stage at Ozzfest, and all of a sudden we're on the main stage.
I'm the 'Showstoppa', the Main Event, the icon!
It's tough going out as the opening act of a band especially when you're solo.
Over the years, I managed to develop this comedy career, went from opening act to headliner at comedy clubs, to playing concert halls, and had an off-Broadway show with 'Sleepwalk With Me.'
Generally speaking people that come to an amphitheater show, they're not coming to see the opening band.
You know when there's a star, like in show business, the star has her name in lights on the marquee! Right? And the star gets themoney because the people come to see the star, right? Well, I'm the star, and all of you are in the chorus.
I was an opening act for 10 years.
It takes a very unique individual to be a star, and a main event star.
I've been hot, I've been lukewarm, I've been freezing, but I've always been a headliner.
My dream is to play Coachella, main stage, when the sun's going down.
I want to become a main player, a main-eventer, a headliner - whatever. I have all that's needed to do that.
I want to headline Bonnaroo. I just want to do it more than anything in the world.
If you're a wrestler in the WWE, then your goal is to be the headliner, main event of WrestleMania.
I'd like to play Vegas as a head-liner.
I still do lots of gigs where I'm the support act and people are chatting through my set, but I've got better at grabbing attention. I mean, my parents would play on bills with people like Judas Priest and get booed all the way through. But they stuck it out, got tough.
Where the women's division is now, if you had told me when I was there that women were gonna headline 'WrestleMania,' I would have said, 'Get out of here. That's never gonna happen.'
I'm gonna be always the main event.
Frank's audience doesn't care if a girl singer, a comic or an organ grinder with a monkey opens the show. They are there to see HIM.
It's fun when you've opened for someone at a venue, and then years go by, and now you're headlining.
When I was touring with Ozzy, you know, when I was with Manson, we toured with Ozzy, so many times, we did Ozzfest a thousand times, and, you know, it seems like I'm always playing with Ozzy in one way or another opening up.
