Chris Lane Quotes

We're on tour for six months out of the year.

I had never been allowed to go on tour with my husband George Harrison, so had no idea what to expect when I left him to join Eric Clapton on his 1974 U.S. tour.

For better or for worse, I just have to be on tour for some portion of the year. But it's not easy, you know. It's not easy on the people you love, and I understand when people look at this life and say this isn't sustainable.

I'm quite tame as touring musicians go.

There was a time I'd do 300 shows a year.

I cannot spend my entire life going around the country playing 'You Enjoy Myself '.

I tour more than I need to, more than is good for you. But it's my favorite part of music. I much prefer it to studio work.

If you just do 50 to 60 shows a year, it's not that much time away from home.

I've been touring for 25 years. I'm used to it, so I love it. Although I feel the tug of home, as I have three little kids, I don't suffer like some artists who constantly complain about how much they hate traveling.

I must have played every college and university at least three times, and that goes for most of the clubs. I'd be on the road six days a week, go home and change bags, and then be gone for another six days.

A lot of bands whine about the road and how tough it is.

When you tour, it's so hard on the body. Being in one place is cool. It's a more stable environment.

The touring part is really mixed. You love to play and you can't wait to go, but you don't want to leave.

I am a touring artist - I get a kick out of it, like, a huge kick.

You don't write songs, really, when you're on tour.

I don't think I ever had a certain image of what touring was like... I think when you're young, you think it's very glamourous, but it's not.

Being on the road has about 2 1/2 hours a day that are really great, and that's when you're onstage. The other 21 1/2 hours are very boring... It becomes like a void, and we chose to fill it with all the wrong things.

We've always enjoyed touring, which is fortunate because we're always on the road. The most difficult part is that time passes by so quickly. It's hard to pay attention to your normal life because shows are all-encompassing.

Ninety percent of touring is a logistical maneuver, moving your body and everyone else's from one city to the next. You're like a piece of gear. Then you jump out of the box, get onstage, and play. That sounds cynical, but it sucks to move around so much.

The thing is, I'll always be a touring artist. It's what I am; that's what I love doing.

I knew from a very young age that I wanted to be in that world. But I also understood that being a touring musician meant that you'd be gone a lot and that was going to make other things a lot harder, like having a family.

After leaving Queen, I decided to stop doing those mega-four-month tours. I go out for a month, and my dog recognizes me when I come home.

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

Touring is a weird thing. It's like getting married to four different people.

Everybody thinks that touring is really glamourous, but I pretty much sit in a room all day. I have a sort of office where I do emails, and I go for a run, and then at the end of the night, I go to bed. It's not like some crazy party.