I like making new songs and I like playing them live — not tons of them, because you have to slowly incorporate new material since you have an obligation to play the songs that people love, because that’s what they come for.
Perform - Performance Quotes
I never really thought of myself as a physical comedian. But when I was a kid I used to, you know, pretend to trip over things to make girls laugh in school and stuff like that. So I kind of learned how to fall without hurting yourself.
I have never felt like a stage personality. My strength lies in expressing emotions in the music.
The show is Trump, and it is sold-out performances everywhere.
What I live for is those … moments where you really feel like it’s real life, and you’re in this character, and you’re in this moment and you’re recreating life as it goes along. That to me is like a drug. It’s like the ultimate high.
When I talk about how I came from a songwriting world — if you don’t like dance music or you don’t go to Tulum or Burning Man or Berghain or whatever — you can still listen to my album. You’re going to hear the Miguel song and go, “Oh this is comfortable for my ears […]
Every single gig I’ve ever done — which I think is represented by every brick in my house — has been important for knowing what to do at this point in my career. There isn’t a night where something doesn’t go wrong where I don’t know what to do. And I think, “Oh, I learned […]
I know that when I am in the audience, whether you come out with a ukulele or a marching band, all I ask you give me everything you’ve got to give. That’s what I did for the last 50 years.
We lived like the Amish people. We had no electricity and no running water. No power. We did everything by hand. But Mom took me to the fair in Georgetown, South Carolina. I was about 4 years old. And I was watching Ernest Tubb, the country singer. They called him ‘The Travelling Troubadour.’ When I […]
You are doing your best only when you are trying to improve what you are doing.
