Quotes About Adaptation

You could take any four people, no matter how wonderful they are, and if you make them live together on a tour bus for eight years and don't give them any time off, after a while everybody gonna start going crazy.

Every day I have a tour bus that comes around my house and stops. You can hear them on their microphone. If you don't embrace it, it's going to destroy you.

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.

Touring can be quite a dull life.

Over the years my voice has been destroyed from excessive touring... and I love it.

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.

When I returned to the Touring Car championship, I got the team to create a special brake pedal that I could use with my prosthetic leg.

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.

Broadway is another monster. I've been touring since I was 12 years old and I love being on the road - one day you're here, next day it's snowing, and the next you are in a desert and it's 110 degrees. So I guess I'm kind of used to the madness physically that you go to when you are an entertainer. But it's been great.

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.

I remember having to quit school and quit my job. I just sort of moved all my stuff into other people's places. Within, like, six months, I was able to earn enough money from touring to rent a place again.

Touring is a whole other animal for me and a whole other skill. But I'm having a lot of fun figuring all that out and switching it from internal to external and putting on a show.

Before the Internet became so powerful, I toured extensively. With the rise of the Internet, touring apparently has become less important.

I wrote 'Torches' before experiencing touring as a band. I really had no idea what they would sound like live, and that was something we had to figure out along the way.

I can imagine myself as an old man writing music for choir or orchestra. I don't know that I'll be touring six months out of the year in a rock band when I'm 60.

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.

Bands are actively seeking more film involvement - because the days of recording albums and MTV and even touring, to some extent, are gone.

There's really no money per se to be made on records. We used to make a lot of money on records. Now, all of our money is made on touring.

I wanted to be the country version of Stevie Nicks, but before you knew it, I was heading in a pop direction, touring the world, having No. 1 singles, and loving every minute of it.

Touring is completely different to me than being in the studio.