It is not a mystical thing, however, it is obvious and practical and I think that what the performer does is to try to get to that point with every choice you make from the phrasing in a tune to the choice of tunes.
It's always been impressive to me when someone can really do what they want onstage. The audience has confidence in the performer and the performer has confidence in the crowd.
I still get excited performing live. When you see the immediate reaction from a crowd, its like being a theater performer, its something you can't get from being a writer or being an ad man. . . its almost ritualistic.
Naturally, people's image is of a performer, but the reality of it is the writing for me has always been the most important thing and the most rewarding thing.
When a performer doesn't get nervous, that is when you have to give up.
I keep showing decade after decade that I am a real performer.
Performers and their public should never meet. Once the curtain comes down, the performer should fly away like a magician's dove.
I am inspired by show girls and Vegas. I was a cabaret performer, so that's where all that influence comes from.
Successful careers are not planned. They develop when people are prepared for opportunities because they know their strengths, their method of work, and their values. Knowing where one belongs can transform an ordinary person - hardworking and competent but otherwise mediocre - into an outstanding performer.
I think Madonna is a wonderful performer.
Any performer is one person privately and then he's another person when he steps on the stage.
I've always loved the rock & roll element to live shows, because whatever else I do, I'm basically a rockpop performer, and that's what I like.
It was never the goal to be a solo performer. It was just something that made the most sense at the time.
There's so many parts of your life, you know? People say that you don't get any better after the age of about forty or something like that, as a performer. I find all that to be a misconception. I don't feel bad about the way I present stuff. The calendar and the mirror - they're bastards.
I will definitely start in small venues, as I want to find my feet as a performer; the first shows that Westlife did was ten dates at Wembley, which was just crazy. We didn't have a clue what we were doing because it was so big.
It was like Mama suddenly realized I was good, that she didn't have to apologize for me. It was the strangest feeling. One minute I was on stage with my mother, the next moment I was on stage with Judy Garland. One minute she smiled at me, and the next minute she was like the lioness that owned the stage and suddenly found somebody invading her territory. The killer instinct of a performer had come out in her.
Every performer should learn a little bit of everything. Most performers today only play the guitar.
I've always as a performer on stage tend to sort of throw myself into the character, whatever I've written about, so it depends on how I'm writing or what I'm writing about.
Fans are what make a performer and I've always taken them seriously.
I'm not really a musician. I'm a performer and I love rock 'n' roll.