Quotes About Performance

We owe it to the fans to do a tour around the world.

A lot of actors won't do things because they say it is boring when you are always working. A lot of them won't go on tour, a lot won't do pantomime. I think you should do everything.

World class players don't become rubbish overnight, especially over one tour.

You put your blood, sweat, and tears into an album and you think that's where it ends, but no - when you go on tour you're still carrying the life of that album and the life of those songs until you put your next project out.

We came off the road of the last tour very inspired to just keep playing, so we went to Canada.

When you go on tour, you get so pumped up to make more music, learn more about yourself, and grow more musically. It always happens.

When Josh and I are recording a record, we're very mindful of how the music will manifest itself live. That's where we have to live every day. When we tour for the next record, I imagine there will be a new story to tell, and we'll introduce new characters.

I loved the 'Free Spirit' tour and the guys who helped create the magic: Pete Bullick, Rich Newman, Ian Rowley and Gerard 'G' Louis.

The very first concert I ever went to was a Green Day concert when I was 12 years old, at the Hershey Centre in Mississauga, Ont., and I remember right after seeing them perform I started a band, and I wanted to get up in front of people and start performing. Ten years later, to be on the Green Day 'American Idiot' tour is really awesome.

That was our first major tour and we got a chance to play in front of like 5000 people every day so it was like a Rock and Roll boot camp for us really, we learned a lot and made a lot of good friends.

When you tour, you regain the music and the connection with the audience.

I mean, it takes a large entourage to put on a tour. You can't have 'em sittin' around.

When we can figure out a way to really tour and make a profit, then we'll do it again.

If we didn't do the tour, it would have been disastrous.

It is not very practical in today's world when you tour all over the place having a big band.

I'm basically always on tour.

Traditionally the show must go on which is a stupid thing to say, but that in a nutshell is what's going on. We have a new record out; if we won't tour, the new record dies. It's reality - it's what business is nowadays. You just need to tour to sell your albums.

We never got on a big, big tour, but we did a lot of spot dates.

Anyway, I collapsed in France in the middle of a tour. I hadn't been eating properly, I was getting very phobic about audiences, and I collapsed in pure fright.

But you know, I still had a dream of being able to go back home and tour.

If it wasn't good, I wouldn't be going back out on tour.

I constantly tour, even when I don't have a record out.

I remember a tour where we played 50 cities in 56 days. We also went to Europe a couple of times.

But the most important test is to take them on tour and see if you can bear to spend time with them.