Arena Tour Quotes

I'm not someone who gets to play The O2 and places like that, but that's the kind of rock and roll venue. The popularity of stand-up means that some people are getting to play rock star venues.

As far as the live shows go, we're not leapfrogging all the smaller venues. We would have bypassed these kind of shows and gone straight to the Arena shows, but we didn't want to.

Thanks to my fans that have been with me from the beginning, I was able to sell out arenas on my own.

After 18 NBA years, it's hard to believe I'll be playing in each arena for the last time.

I've never been platinum. I've never sold out an arena. I've never been on an arena tour.

Doing the O2 Arena in London in 2011 was pretty awesome.

I want to sell out arenas and make an album and work with some of the best artists in the world.

Definitely, when you get into something where bands are playing for 30,000 people, it's not like the post-punk, U.S. independent scene.

I'm the cash cow, I believe, so at 135 or 130, I'm selling out arenas, putting butts in the seats.

My biggest dream is to headline an arena tour.

Those first big concerts we played as 'Throwing Copper' started to really reach people worldwide - I think we played our first big arena show at the George Estate basketball arena down in Atlanta. I remember showing up and standing on stage and just being like, 'I can't believe this is going to be full of people. This is huge.'

Even the biggest bands - and I hate to break the magic - but even the band that sold out 90,000 tickets in your football stadium, they might come back two years later and do an arena. It still feels huge, but there's a difference - there's a big difference. And there's a big difference playing a 30,000-seat stadium and a 90,000.

I headline concert halls for 20,000 people, but I still play smaller venues.

Every now and then, Prince decides to try being a normal rock star. You know, the kind who does a professional arena tour where he plays the hits. But part of what makes him such an eternally fascinating star is that he lives in his own private purple world, even when he sets out to make the house quake.