Quotes About Touring

I wrote 'Torches' before experiencing touring as a band. I really had no idea what they would sound like live, and that was something we had to figure out along the way.

It's so crazy to think about touring with Weezer because that's a band that I grew up with.

I did a lot of Shakespeare touring when I was in college in Montana.

My main professional experience is touring in a rock band.

I panic when we're on tour and feel the world can leave you behind. When we finish touring, I feel like I'm running to catch up and find out what's been happening.

I've been really fortunate with touring and sales and all those things because I have such a loyal fan base.

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.

I didn't finish high school. I tried to as an adult, but with all this touring, I had to quit.

I feel like I've paid a really heavy cost, a really heavy physical health cost, for the years of touring and how physical I've been onstage.

Touring is something I do really well.

Touring takes a lot of work, a lot of preparation.

I left school just shy of 17: I'd started going into touring and that situation.

I'm a touring musician. I don't watch the charts. I had the kind of success I'd hoped for. I won Grammys for a folk record, and that was magic.

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.

It is like an addiction: I get addicted to performing and touring. I get itchy and think, 'I've got to do this.'

We'd been out touring for a couple of years before we signed with Sony and everything.

My calendar was empty. Touring the way we did and having a schedule like we did institutionalizes you in a way where you don't know anything else. I think I went through the darkest depression I've ever felt in my life.

When I'm not touring, I really don't leave the house.

I've been touring through Texas since I was 15, on my first tour ever.

When you're in the same band as somebody, you're seeing them almost more than 24 hours a day. You start to see an awful lot of the bad side 'cause touring is no easy thing.

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.

Touring is my religion. Music is all-encompassing - my religion.

For me, the exhausting thing about touring is the sitting around, which is why working on my concert music is really great - and also seeing concerts and seeing friends and, whenever possible, getting out to see a museum.

The best part of touring has to be playing shows.