Long Distance Journeys Quotes

I don't love being on the road.

When you've done as much travelling as I have, it becomes hard work - I probably spend 90 per cent of the year travelling.

I seem to spend a minimum of eight hours a day in transit of some sort or another... that's eight hours of your life gone. People always ask if I suffer from jet lag, but it's kinda become really normal for me... Although the jet lag does become a factor and you're pretty much always tired.

Whereas for me, touring tends to be a very strange and isolating experience.

A good 60 per cent of my time I spend travelling, mostly to the U.S., Canada and Germany.

When I was on the road full-time, there was about an eight, nine year stretch where I averaged, conservatively, 250 days a year out on the road. That's basically you fly into a town, you get a Rent-A-Car, find a hotel, go to the gym, you eat, you go to the arena, go back to the hotel, you wake up, go to the airport and go somewhere else.

I do a lot of solo work in Europe and the Far East, and my main passion is traveling.

I'm on the road almost eight months of the year.

Touring gets really lonely.

I've done the big 12-city tours, and I'm never going to do that again - never. I was younger then. It wears you out, you know.

I'm the guy who'll drive 250 miles tonight and be at the gym tomorrow at 10 A.M., when people are still sleeping in. I'm the guy who'll fly to Australia and find a gym. Fly back and first thing I do off the plane is work out before I shower or eat.

Touring is really a pretty lonely business.

Although I hardly ever turn on the TV set unless it's football season, I do watch a lot of TV on my iPad - perfect for long airplane journeys.