Performing Live Quotes

Although he loved performing live, and was great at it - Jeff was as solid on stage, as he was in the studio - performing for two hours at a stretch really took a physical toll. It was very hard on him.

I'm living in L.A., which is hard to get around. I live way out in the suburbs, it's hard for me to get to town. You get five minutes here, then you gotta drive a half hour to the next one. New York was so much easier for standup because you could hit five clubs in a night. Just jump in a cab, pop. Boom, boom, boom. And you could walk to some of 'em, and work out stuff on the way. You can really get some more traction out there. You could work new material easier out there, I thought.

About music shows... um... I do want to go on music shows.

The adrenaline of performing live in front of an audience is a feeling that's hard to replicate.

Touring is always important to me. It's like a big IOU to my fans, because I know they are the reason I exist.

The very first concert I ever went to was a Green Day concert when I was 12 years old, at the Hershey Centre in Mississauga, Ont., and I remember right after seeing them perform I started a band, and I wanted to get up in front of people and start performing. Ten years later, to be on the Green Day 'American Idiot' tour is really awesome.

We've been in front of really big audiences, and people have said there's a couple of hundred thousand people out there, but I've never really noticed.

Ok so there's no TV shows, no movies going on fine, but I love going on stage and performing stand up so my situation is a little better than someone who's strictly just an actor or actress.

Back when I was in high school, I came out onstage with my guitar and had four guys playing behind me. We were just playing a dance, but I was standing in front of an audience rocking out. I'm still rocking out like when I was a kid. I haven't changed.

I miss touring. I miss seeing people on the road. I miss that adrenaline rush; there's nothing like it.

I would go to sleep and dream about being onstage with thousands and thousands of people.

Go on stage and stomp my foot on stage and play my guitar and sing my guts out because I love to entertain people. That's what makes me happy.

I just want to live on the road. I can't understand artists that don't want to perform and, like, get on stage and do their songs for all their fans every night. If I'm not performing every night, I get totally depressed. I know that sounds really weird, but I hate sitting at home and not having a 1 A.M. performance now. It kills me.

It's great to play live. I love it and appreciate it more than I did in the early days. It's a central part of being in A-ha.

The hour and a half I'm on stage is my favourite part of the day when I'm on tour because the only part I really love is the interaction with the audience.

I love performing live, especially when I get in the zone. But the studio is really becoming a place I have grown to love.

There's nothing more fun than being out on stage and getting the vibe from the crowd. There's nothing like being on a set where you are there to make other people happy and to make them laugh. That's the best job in the world.

Everyone enjoys downtime at home, I'm sure, for various reasons, but I find the whole system of being out there and doing shows for people - the more of it you do, in fact the more energizing it is, for me individually.

I feel like it's been so crazy to get to open for people like Rascal Flatts, Lady A, Billy Currington.

I love being on tour; I love being on the road. It's the most amazing feeling ever. I live for it; I love it.

I rarely do shows just by myself, I've had vocalists or musicians so I can look at them and connect - and say 'can you breathe... do you need a water?'

I'm most proud of my career as a touring comedian and musician. I love doing television, I love selling records, but when I'm at these venues with hundreds of people, and they're all sitting listening to my music and my jokes, I feel like I could die that day, and I would be happy.

Nothing beats performing live. For me, there's nothing better.

My focus was, and still is, totally on making music, getting on the road and performing live.

If I can stay healthy, then I can wrestle every single week. I want to make every single town that I can, see the whole world, feel every crowd in every arena, and pull those emotional strings. I can't explain what it feels like to be in the center stage connecting with thousands of people, but I'm having the best time doing it.