Quotes About Balance

When you're writing two books a year, you really need some time off and don't want to use that down time for touring. I do like talking with readers, though; they can tell you important stuff.

Sleeping on people's floors when you're 22 is fine. But when you get your life in order and have a family you want to keep and a certain level of health, touring bigger means you can keep going for longer.

I'm lucky that I enjoy touring as much as I do. I'm not going to make a living just making records.

It's pretty weird when you are just touring all the time and you don't have a normal life. You're out of touch with reality too much.

When you give your life over to your touring schedule, it's so grueling, you have to have moments where you have your own comfort places.

I have a really different touring life to most comedians because I go home every night to do the school run in the morning. So I'm not in hotels or living it up.

When we try and blend the two together, the songwriting and the touring like we did before, it doesn't really work. We tend to become very focused on what we are doing. And we tend to be a little bit one-track-minded.

My priorities were taking the kids to school and being a mum and being a daughter and being a sister. Just spending a lot of that time with my family that I'd probably lost a lot of, touring with the Cranberries.

I definitely think that touring is a really crazy lifestyle and makes it hard to live a normal life and have relationships and friendships.

I feel like touring is a man's game. And I don't think that's sexist; I just think, on tour, you can't really take care of yourself the way you want to.

What I learned is that it's very hard to have both a family life and a touring life simultaneously.

Mental health is personal for our whole band. As touring musicians, self-care can quickly become make it or break it on the road.

I've spent the last 10 years constantly touring and haven't had much reason to stick around anywhere. I'm 34 now, and I've got a girlfriend and a house and two cats. I don't want to run away; I like where I'm at.

The best part of a MacArthur is having some pressure taken off from touring relentlessly.

It was nice to be home for a change. Nice to be with my husband. Nice to be with the kids. But it's also nice to be touring again.

I don't really work on songs when we're touring because there's just too much other stuff going on.

Because of all the touring we do, our diets are all over the place.

Parenting put music in the right place for me. Touring was always the first priority before, but it isn't any more. And, paradoxically, that has made my ability to make music much easier.

I've had the worst relationships because with touring it's impossible.

Yeah, before DJing, judo was my passion. I've always loved it but DJing and producing took over my life and finding time to fit it in was hard once the touring started.

It is hard being in a relationship when you are a dancer as I have been touring a lot all over the world.

I don't really get too high or too low. I think when you have a big tournament, that's the important thing: managing emotion.

You cannot just play tournament after tournament like maybe I did when I was 23, 24 years old.

If you look at the players, they need more of a break. Some players only get as little as three weeks after a major tournament and it's straight back to the grind.