Quotes About Performance

I'm kind of an obsessive person, and touring is repetitive in the best way.

We're known as a touring band, not a singles band.

Touring is too much fun to stop.

I like touring; I live on the road, more or less.

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.

I miss touring. I miss seeing people on the road. I miss that adrenaline rush; there's nothing like it.

I don't like when I see bands that are just a memory of what they used to be, and there's a few out there that I've seen recently that are still touring... I'm not gonna name them, but some of the members can barely play their parts, and then they have a lot of other members that weren't even originally in the band.

I landed gigs touring with The Jonas Brothers and Britney Spears!

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.

As you're touring there are so many layers to a live show, it has always been important for me to have a guitar that I can use live and in the studio.

I have to continue to work, and I have to be touring, because that's how I earn a living.

We were touring the States tied to a load of drum machines and sequencers and synthesizers, playing to hundreds of thousands of people and yet feeling strangely removed from the music.

When I was touring with Peas, I was able to make the crowd feel the energy. When I said: 'put your hands up or make some noise,' they just did it.

I find that touring keeps your voice in great shape.

So many people moan about touring and say it's a chore. I don't know, they must be living on a different planet.

Madonna would not have done a 360 deal with us just because of our touring capability. We had to prove to her and others that we have been working on and built a very good execution capacity at Artist Nation.

Jay Z is one of the world's preeminent touring artists.

But I'm pretty lucky with my voice. When I first started touring I went to see a woman to give me some coaching on how not to lose my voice. And she was just saying really your voice is a muscle so if you're using it all the time you should actually come back from tour with a stronger voice than you left with. And that's really how I find it.

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

So many people have told me that it's quite different playing out in the States, and obviously, as a musician, touring in the States is kind of the Holy Grail.

I don't really work on songs when we're touring because there's just too much other stuff going on.

The thing about touring is you get to see the world, man.

I used to hate touring, I used to absolutely hate it! I think one of the reasons why was because in between songs I found it difficult to talk to the audience, and now I don't care, I say what I want!