Alice Merton Quotes

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

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.

The cliched rock life never seemed that cool to me.

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

You get so brainwashed. You're on the road 300 days a year, and that's why guys get so messed up. This life becomes a part of them. It's not real, but some guys who are still in the business think it is.

I'm very fit on tour. I try to eat well, try to sleep. But it's still rock n' roll.

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

I laughed at Willie Nelson, wondering why he spends all his life on that tour bus. And I look at myself, and I'm sitting in airplanes half the time.

I don't have any illusions anymore. The illusion that rock 'n' roll could change anything - I don't believe that. I've changed.

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

Hydroxycut keeps me going while on tour. It's a grind on the road, and I'm excited to be joining the team.

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.

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

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

Touring is a rough thing. You don't have any time to look around or stop and think if what you're doing is making you happy. The more you tour, the better the band gets, and you get caught up in a lot more things than just traveling.

I definitely think that touring is a really crazy lifestyle and makes it hard to live a normal life and have relationships and friendships.

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.

I believe that intermittent live performance has cut short the writing lives of touring musicians.

Traveling is a fool's paradise.

Everyone wants to grow up to be a faerie princess. Trust me, It's overrated

If I'm not touring I'd just be at home, just driving - I'm kind of at a loss for how that stuff works.

When you get there, there isn't any there there.

Every real object must cease to be what it seemed, and none could ever be what the whole soul desired.

I saw that everything famous and beautiful in the world, if we judge by the descriptions and drawings of writers and artists, always loses when we go to see it and examine it closely.

The sumptuous age of stars and images is reduced to a few artificial tornado effects, pathetic fake buildings, and childish tricks which the crowd pretends to be taken in by to avoid feeling too disappointed. Ghost towns, ghost people. The whole place has the same air of obsolescence about it as Sunset or Hollywood Boulevard.