Quotes About Artistry

I write in English. My first album came out in Italy, and I toured and did gigs.

I really try to find inspiration in all band's I've toured with because everyone's up there doing their own thing and captivating in different forms.

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 can still make a living with touring. And maybe you buy a t-shirt. And I would rather 10 million people get my record and listen to it for free than 500,000 that I coerced to pay $15 for it, you know?

I'll give up this sort of touring madness certainly, but music-everything is based on music. No, I'll never stop my music.

A lot of people can't stand touring but to me it's like breathing. I do it because I'm driven to do it.

I love going out and touring, and maybe people understand that it's not about making a quick buck. Maybe that translates.

Each album takes two or two-and-a-half years to finish between recording and touring. It's like being with an old boyfriend every single night watching the same things on TV. There is a world out there going on that I'm missing.

I love the whole process for each new album. The writing, the touring, everything. For me, it never gets old.

Music is my work, writing songs is my work, touring is my work, going into the studio is my work.

To me, the only good reason to be touring is if you still have something good to share instead of just revisiting past glories.

I just love singing, songwriting and touring.

We travel so much as touring musicians and artists that sometimes, when you hear a great song that you really think could be on your project, you go ahead and record it instead of try to write it.

I've always wanted to be a pop star of sorts because I love the whole touring gig.

When I was three, I lived in Florida, and my mom took me to see the touring production of 'Cats.' And I was, like, absolutely silent - which for a 3-year-old never happens - and I turned to her and said, 'I need to do this.' That's when I started my performer journey.

For me, this band and the music that I write and this touring thing that I do and playing in front of people, singing, and making a lot of noise on guitar - all that was more important than a lot of other things.

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.

If I can still sing and still perform to my satisfaction, I don't mind touring.

I don't mind doing the Who tours when they come along but I want to get out there and play.

I didn't have to inspire John toward the avant-garde; he did not need anything from me. That is why it's so interesting that critics decided to dislike me. At some point the members of the quartet felt it was time for a change, and left on their own.

I'm not technical. When I listen to music, I gravitate more toward the sonic aspect of it. The technical stuff of it, I get bored with it. These long solos? OK, already. You know your scales, big deal. I know it, too, but I don't want to do that.

I should be soaring away with my head tilted slightly toward the gods, feeding on the caviar of Shakespeare. An actor must act.

Even when I don't think I'm writing, I'm writing. There's some part of my brain geared toward making songs up, and I know it's collecting things and I know when I get a moment to be by myself, that's when they come out.

I'm a fan of real singers. I just gravitate towards that.