Lizzo Talks Pressure to Top Last Album and Returning to Live Performing: ‘I Got My Confidence Back’

Lizzo will perform an American Express UNSTAGED concert on Saturday, Dec. 4 in Miami.”I felt like I was going to be rusty, but it’s almost like second nature,” Lizzo, 33, tells PEOPLE of returning to the stage. “I’ve learned to trust myself and trust my body again. My confidence was shaken a little bit over this time, like, ‘Will people care? Are people going to show up?’ They proved me wrong. I got my confidence back.”

I let go of the part of myself I lost — being anonymous, privacy — but I’ve gained so much,” she says of how life has changed since becoming a star. “My dreams are coming true. People love my music. That’s all I ever wanted. I was really hungry back then, burning the candle at both ends.”

She adds, “Now I have this sort of calm to me, like: ‘You’ve done it. Enjoy it. Appreciate it.'”