Here I am, on the road again. There I am, up on the stage. Here I go, playing star again. There I go, turn the page.
I've been performing my whole life.
I experience so many feelings and emotions when I tour. It's the most amazing and also the most lonely thing you can do.
Do you know how many concerts I've done in my whole life, in more than 35 years of performing? Sixty-four.
A lot of those comics can't hold down relationships and they've got no other life apart from performing. They sleep in their Jags and a lot of them can't even talk. All they can do is tell gags.
If you count my childhood appearances in a few TV shows and being the son of two well-known actor parents in the U.K., plus three years of drama school, you could say that I've been pretty much surrounded by the business of acting and performing my entire life.
My family is out of the ordinary in our physical lifestyle and the day-to-day things that we deal with, but my approach to them is pretty rational and sound. And I'm the quiet one! It's very different from my performing life.
The musician lifestyle is not easy for most people to understand. This is something I'm struggling with. When you're on tour, people think you're just having the time of your life and it's really romantic.
I love traveling. I love meeting people. I love performing, but it's hard to be gone and to not have a real life and to just get the emotional love that you need from the people you're traveling with.
I keep telling everybody that touring has now become my normal life and that normal life is like a very odd vacation.
