Steve Perry Quotes

When I turned 30, I started to feel all those miles. At times, you want to turn the faucet off a bit, but I never want to stop traveling. That's what it's all about - taking the music to the people.

We play a long show, and you can't beat yourself up too much over it, as physically you just kill yourself. It was always good fun on the road and it still is.

I always complain because I'm old now and everything hurts.

I don't mind getting old except for the pain. I have two new knees, so going downstairs is not perfect. Nobody tells you about the pain.

The Band is sounding real good. We've been doing some dates together and they've been going well.

I've worked with a band, and it's nice to have someone to travel around with, but I didn't like it as well on stage.

You wouldn't want to be in a rock band - trust me.

I got sick when I was 19, and I'd been a really healthy 19-year-old, so I don't have a lot to compare it to. Does it feel like the pain after you give birth? I don't know.

At 49, I find it a little bit difficult to run these days. I've got grade four tears in both Achilles, shin splints, I got no cartilage the toes in my right foot, I've got bone marrow edemas under both knees, I've got one degenerating hip - that's the problem you get.

I don't think too much about age. Maybe if you're hurting, aching and arthritic, then you think about it a lot. But I don't.

Musicians are in-season all the time.

Rock stars are good at making noise.

I am very friendly with lots of people in rock'n'roll, because I spent so much time with them over the years through Mick's work.

When you've travelled for 34 years as a musician, you do all the culture stuff when you're young and full of energy. In the middle stage, you indulge too much and are scared of daylight. Then, in the final stage, you've seen it all, so you tend to take things a lot easier.

Most of your day is spent working, and being in a band is no different. We're just business travelers in a way.

I'm getting older and I guess I was pushing myself too hard; we were doing six shows in a row and all that kind of thing.

The two most painful things in my life are arthritis and divorce.

I have been touring since I got my first band in 1962, so there is no problem there. We are basically performing musicians, so that's what we do.

Hillbilly Rock' was the song that opened the door and gave me a reason to get a bus and a band and cowboy clothes to go out there and figure it out in front of everybody. And the hits started coming.

Being a musician means I am 'hanging out' a lot, like driving on tour or being at a show or whatever, so maybe there's more time to interact with peers and develop jokes.

I have no illusions about running. I hate running. If I could feel as good as I felt at 30 without running, I wouldn't do it, but that's not the way it works! So - no pain, no gain.

I've had my elbows operated on, both my knees are shot, I've got stitches everywhere.

Just give me the ball; I don't care how old I get. Give me the ball.

Being in a band, whether your female or male, is really hard.

I did 100 concerts in 2010 and I had a bit of a burn out at the end of the year. I was absolutely exhausted and didn't want to do it any more.