Quotes About Touring

Touring with Iggy Pop was something to do. It was good fun. I got drunk a lot.

Touring is my favorite part of being a musician. All the places I've traveled and lived affect me in many different ways. Good and bad.

That's one of the great things about touring. It makes you machinelike in a way that you can re-create this music not only in the right way but even better than when it was conceived.

Before I started touring, I worked with someone to help me, even physically, because I was so shy. And you can't be shy going onstage. So I had to push myself in a direction that wasn't myself.

I joined Count Basie's band to make a little money and to see the world. For two years I didn't see anything but the inside of a Blue Goose bus, and I never got to send home a quarter.

We just do what we always do. We play shows and go home and rest and then play more shows.

I tend to have to just get away from it all, so it is nice when touring to be able to come home for a week or two and close the door and not really see anybody.

When I'm not touring, I sing at home, either at the piano or I'll pick up my guitar, singing old Buck Owens songs.

Touring definitely makes you appreciate home more, so when I can be home, I like to stay home.

I find when I'm touring or when I'm traveling, I just enter this other world kind of. It's much easier for me to be creative and be unselfconscious about creating when I'm home.

I don't do drugs anymore... than, say, the average touring funk band.

I think bands, when they're on the road, they keep their sanity by developing an internal sense of humor.

Being in a rock band is about touring. It's about writing songs and it's about making records but it's also about taking a wonderful smile onto that stage and making the people feel good about themselves.

I tour alone. There's no sound check, no back up. I stay with the hosts I am in a family home and it's really nourishing. I just have to remember after the show not to run out into the living room in my pyjamas. Every day, it's a new relationship being built. It's odd and wonderful.

When I left Free back in 1972, I didn't play 'All Right Now' until about 1996, when I was touring with Jason Bonham, and we were supporting the tribute record we had done to Muddy Waters.

Over the last couple of years, I've really worked toward balancing my life out more, having a little bit more time with friends, family and my boyfriend. There was a period of time when they were way down the list. It was all about music and touring and if everything fell by the wayside, so be it.

I think you just have to look after yourself, you know, when you're doing long tours; you just have to. I think bands learn that pretty soon, really. And if they don't, I think they tend to fall by the wayside.

I do try to go home as much as possible after each show. I've got my own plane. I'm very fortunate.

Girls Aloud is not just us five, there's like us five plus a ridiculous team of 50 who travel with us, it's amazing.

I constantly tour every year, around the clock. That's how I make my living, and I do very well. Because I have classic songs.

As a comedian, you see all parts of the country because you play there.

Comedians are on the road so much that when they're just getting to act and sit in one place, they're really grateful and just ready.

Most years, I do 70 or 80 concerts.

We survived a Slayer crowd every night for about 50 days and thought we could do about anything after that.