Quotes About Challenges

Touring is real demanding. You swing between sadness and euphoria. But for us to cry about it isn't fair.

I don't like touring and it seemed to be getting on top of me in a big way.

It was about this time that I began experiencing the beginnings of my battles with an anxiety disorder. We were touring a lot and there were some developing personal problems within the band.

I felt pressured by continuous touring.

Nowadays, it's like two different arenas, recording and touring. When I started way back in the day, doing both was nothing, you didn't have to think about it, the road and recording.

I knew how touring was for 10 years, but it's completely different now that things are popping off.

I'm still learning how to be comfortable touring. I haven't found that balance yet.

Touring can be tough; the crew and I travel everywhere by a big pink bus, and live in petrol stations.

Touring is just not normal for me. My personality is to never ever talk to people if I can help it.

I started salsa dancing with a few different companies and started touring the country. It was fantastic, but I realized that I really wanted to talk every time we were performing. That's a problem because when you're dancing, if you stop to talk, that's not really cool to the other dancers.

Motivation has always been a fascinating factor when considering a touring artist, especially when the years stack up. What keeps one out there year after year?

I don't find touring very creative. There's not much time to yourself with your instruments.

Touring is a tough business.

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

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.

Touring is really hard because you're gone for three months at a time.

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.

In Free, we managed ourselves, and it was too tough for us to handle all of what that entailed when we got to touring America.

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.

Touring, it's really difficult to actually make a band work, and I think that's why there's so few bands that do work, actually, 'cause there's so much that goes into it.

I hate touring. But being onstage is one of the absolute best things I know in my life. And it is so good, it makes up for all the bad.

I get stage fright really bad sometimes, so touring has been hard on me in a lot of ways. But despite that, I love performing.