Quotes About Touring

Touring with Blink helped introduce people to Alkaline Trio who otherwise wouldn't have ever heard of us.

I like touring. It's like a school trip.

I don't travel anywhere without the PS3 and XBox. There's nothing better to do on long bus trips while on tour.

There are nights when you can feel stale because you've fallen into a pattern by touring too much, but it's easy to get out of it by deliberately getting in trouble and playing yourself into a corner to then see if you can get out of it.

If I were to travel with all my instruments, I would need a truck.

I feel strikingly domestic. We're in our own world with two busses and trucks.

They are the only people in the world who I can truly trust and rely on. Touring gets really lonely. I guess I have friends around me but when you're paying them can they ever really be true friends?

Since the traditional recorded-music business models have drastically changed, there is truly diminished income derived from recorded music by artists - both current and catalog. The touring industry has become much more important as a majority revenue stream and the ancillary fan experiences and promotions that may be derived from it.

I do road gigs occasionally but I don't want to go out on the road for months at a time.

To be in a band on the road is to have anything and everything you want just by picking up the phone.

Having the baby changed my life a lot. I don't want to go on the road.

I'm addicted to working. I mean, I have a list of 100 countries I want to play in. I'm basically killing myself by travelling so much, for no reason whatsoever.

Come English Settlement, I had it in my head that I didn't want to tour.

Touring is a young man's game, but after 30 years of it, I want to stay home.

Men are going to go out on the road and they're going to find other women. So if you really want to save yourself a whole lot of heartache, do not fall in love with somebody in a band. Just don't.

My dad and grandpa were in the army and as a country singer you're constantly playing at military bases all across the country and meeting soldiers and their families and hearing their stories.

When I was on the road with Billy Bragg, it was cool because I was doing the whole thing solo and travel a lot by myself, which I quite like. I mean, I love being with friends, but it's kind of nice having that alone time.

It's really hard when you break up with somebody, or somebody breaks up with you, and you're in this band; guess who you have to see in the next day in the hotel in the breakfast room? That person.

I used to perform in Calgary, Edmonton, Red Deer, Cold Lake, Lethbridge, Medicine Hat, Camrose, Kamloops, Kelowna, Surrey, and all over Western Canada for Stampede Wrestling.

I would say New York, Chicago, Memphis, and Los Angeles were my favorites.

I like playing Michigan.

They are the only people in the world who I can truly trust and rely on. Touring gets really lonely. I guess I have friends around me but when you're paying them can they ever really be true friends?

Brian kept forcing them to go back out on tour.

It feels like it's just starting in America and the UK. It's great to have a loyal fanbase in Australia and New Zealand. People in America say how polished our band are, but that didn't happen overnight; that came from doing all this touring back home.