Quotes About Challenges

I like performing, but I usually get really sick when I'm on tour, and it's just hard.

Well, I've been lucky. I've never gotten a voice polyp. I've never gotten nodes. But I do get sick, usually every tour, and to varying degrees. Sometimes it's a sinusitis.

The idea behind the Anti Tour was people asking me how I would top the 'Aphrodite' tour... I thought the best option was to go completely the other way. I always tried to be that way - sometimes it works and sometimes you fall flat on your face.

New Orleans lives by the water and fights it, a sand castle set on a sponge nine feet below sea level, where people made music from heartache, named their drinks for hurricanes and joked that one day you'd be able to tour the city by gondola.

Over time, certain people don't want to go on tour, and that can easily break up a band.

I think 'Amazing Race' is sometimes like being on tour.

My first-ever date on my first tour, the sound completely cut out. So I had to go on and just shout loudly to the audience.

You get nit-picked in the media. Stats are always up saying he doesn't drive it straight enough or hit enough greens or whatever it is. Then you have to perform, because if you don't perform, then you're off the Tour.

You speak to the press at the Tour every day, but most often in a negative sense. Ninety per cent of the questions you are asked in the post-race press conferences are challenging or provocative, so you have to justify yourself; you have to try to give the right answers about every topic across the board.

I love my bandmates, and they're my friends, and even though we had fun and got to tour and I got to play the drums a lot, which I'll always appreciate, we had a really rough time. We toured and tried to get people to come to our shows and put out records, and we really struggled.

I toured around for years, but the road was always a drag for me. I never made a dime. In fact, I lost a lot of money - it was horrible.

In the past, when we toured countries like Australia or South Africa, we struggled, but we also got to learn a lot, and we learnt to cope with pressure.

After Bad English, I made three albums back-to-back that I still think is my best work, but it wasn't meant to be toured.

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

I'm no spring chicken. The same arthritis that ate up my left hip that finally got replaced hasn't stopped there... And touring is a lot of work. I'm impressed when I see people like Eric Clapton out there. Gee whiz, Eric, give me a break! I know it's gotta hurt somewhere.

Touring for two years is excruciating.

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.

You go from a touring car to an IndyCar, which isn't a great jump, and then you go to this big old heavy stock car which doesn't feel like anything you've ever driven before. All of a sudden none of the stuff you've learned in your career - like setting up the car or what the mechanics need to know - works any more.

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

Touring is a tough plane to get off the ground, and it takes a lot of hard work and a lot of investments.

I was at a slight disadvantage in that I had never played in bands or done any performances before, and that's just as important as writing, recording, and putting records out. It's been a lot of hard work, balanced with a lot of pinch-myself moments of touring in crazy parts of the world.

Over a year's time, I felt like I squeezed in five years of touring experience, which was a really huge help moving forward.

We were really motivated to do something with this record overseas, even though I hate touring.

Touring is really a pretty lonely business.