Quotes About Balance

I've turned down a lot of roles to make time to record and tour.

Being on tour really takes a toll, so you have to find ways to stay healthy.

I quietly work with my computer on the tour bus, and then I wait to make my more natural rhythms when I get home.

I'm actually enjoying the touring life, although the worst part is being away from my three young children.

I cannot work on a Revamp album when I tour with Nightwish. And I cannot do any Nightwish stuff when I'm touring with Revamp.

I love making music, and I love touring. I love that I get to wake up and play music. I don't like being away from my wife and kids.

I'd been touring for so long, seven years. For a year and a half I'd just been curious about what it was like not to tour. It's like if you were to lift a 100-pound barbell with your right arm for seven years, eventually you'd get really curious about what your left arm was capable of.

The hardest part about touring is being away from family and friends. When you're gone for a long time, it's especially hard for me to remember to keep in touch with certain people because there's so much going on on the road.

I used to get really sick. I would go to the doctor with all these ailments, and they would tell me I needed to be at home. I didn't even really understand what that meant because since I was a baby, I've always been moving, moving, and then touring.

Touring the world was almost like a side project that got out of control. It's like two incredibly demanding full-time jobs that I'm trying to do at once.

I believe that intermittent live performance has cut short the writing lives of touring musicians.

I don't need to be the singer of Nightwish 24/7 when I'm not touring or when I want to go to the supermarket in my comfy pants.

I've probably gone a month or two without playing guitar, just because I've gotten so burnt on it touring all year or whatever.

The great thing about kids is the immediate gratification. As soon as I get home from touring, my wife and kids become my life. There is nothing sweeter.

I'm not going around touring the U.S. when I've got nowhere to live.

Touring is real demanding. You swing between sadness and euphoria. But for us to cry about it isn't fair.

Then we're going to take a lot of time off because in the last three years we've been touring continuously.

Nowadays, it's like two different arenas, recording and touring. When I started way back in the day, doing both was nothing, you didn't have to think about it, the road and recording.

I tend to write better when I'm not touring.

It wouldn't be fair to drag a child round the world, touring.

There was an enormous amount of pressure when my first album took off, and I struggled with the speed of everything and the exhaustion from the constant touring.

I'm still learning how to be comfortable touring. I haven't found that balance yet.

I know for a fact that if I could do only music, I'd be out of my mind, insane. I'd be stressed-out; there's so much work. I mean, you work constantly; there are no breaks, really. If you're not promoting a record, you're making one. If you're not making one, you're touring. If you're not touring, you're doing photo shoots and prep work.

I wish records got made faster and looser with less thought in them, but since touring is so much more profitable than records, you spend so much time on the road that it's hard to work on them. And the records get further and further apart.