Audience Quote by Bruce Springsteen

As a kid I was always a bit of a clown, a performer.

— Simon Baker

I've always been a bit of a clown. But I think the seminal moment was when I was sixteen, and I auditioned for a…

— Miriam Shor

I enjoyed clowns when I was a kid going to the circus. Mainly I mean the good clowns, when you go to a circus.

— Andy Muschietti

The first rock stars were incredibly theatrical. Little Richard and Chuck Berry and Elvis Presley - they were theater artists.

— John Cameron Mitchell

The genius of rock music is that it matched the cultural hysteria around it.

— Don DeLillo

I was obsessed with clowns. My dad had to get rid of them. I thought there were clowns under my bed for years.

— Haley Bennett

Our audiences were always the most bizarre mix. You'd have a thousand screaming girls in the front of the stage and then ten very…

— Eric Carmen

I preferred rock when it was in the dark, when it was a secret between me and the audience, when it wasn't mainstream.

— Chrissie Hynde

I was always the kid in school who tried to get attention, not necessarily the class clown, but I'd do little unexpected performances.

— Leonardo DiCaprio

I loved the music, but the excesses of rock n' roll never really appealed to me at all. I couldn't see the point of…

— Robert Palmer

Hearing a lot of early rock n' roll records from a very young age was a huge influence.

— Angus Young

For my rock band, I was influenced by things like 'The Rocky Horror Picture Show.' For me, it's live rock n' roll theater.

— Juliette Lewis