Performance Cycle Quotes

We didn't burn out. We were fresh. So when you go through the 13 shows, that was it until the next time. That way, you went out and did your concerts and things, and you were ready to go again.

We did a different show every night. We'd open a show, and then two weeks later we'd open the next show. And two weeks later we'd open the third show until we had all eight running. And it was just one of the richest experiences I'd ever had in my theatrical life.

Like, I'd rather tour maybe six months out of the year, instead of nine.

Success breeds success, and failure leads to a sort of fallow period.

My whole life at a certain point was studio, hotel, stage, hotel, stage, studio, stage, hotel, studio, stage. I was expressing everything from my past, everything that I had experienced prior to that studio stage time, and it was like you have to go back to the well, in order to give someone something to drink. I felt like a cistern, dried up and like there was nothing more. And it was so beautiful.

Every sport has different cycles where it's better than it was or less than it should be, whatever it is, that will work out.

Hint: money flows into most funds after good performance, and goes out when bad performance follows.

Each album has its own cycle. We wanted to capture all those feelings and moments for this touring cycle.