Rock Life Quotes

Being on the road has about 2 1/2 hours a day that are really great, and that's when you're onstage. The other 21 1/2 hours are very boring... It becomes like a void, and we chose to fill it with all the wrong things.

To be in a band on the road is to have anything and everything you want just by picking up the phone.

You can't live on planet rock star 24/7; you have to be down and dirty and have some fun.

It's hard being a rock; they have such a strange sense of time - and priorities.

Being a rock star isn't all it's cracked up to be, let me tell you.

And later, if I ever felt that I was getting swept away by the craziness of being in a band, well, I'd go back to Virginia.

I walk these streets, a loaded six string on my back I play for keeps, 'cause I might not make it back; I been everywhere, and I'm standing tall I've seen a million faces an I've rocked them all.

Out on a 30 day tour, you got nothing, but groupies and promoters to love you.

I didn't know how to deal with success. If there was a Rock Star 101, I would have liked to take it. It might have helped me.

I get really tired of hearing of all these old rockers whine and complain about how hard life on the road can be. Just stop if you don't like it. I don't think of it as work. I love it all.

Going on tour for 10 years straight and playing 200-plus shows a year, you can't ever come back from that mentally. You're twisted in a weird way where you need that in order to be a person still.

I hear bands say they don't know what country they are in at times. Now I understand because we sleep at weird times and are always in different places - but I'm not moaning. It's all fun.

There were a lot more girls at the shows early on. I'd get off stage and there would be options. Those days are long gone, thank god.

The cliched rock life never seemed that cool to me.

Well, after Zombie Birdhouse came out, I toured behind it in the fall of 1982, into the spring, and in the summer in the Far East. At that time, I found my work self-referential; it was getting to be rock songs about a rock singer who lived a rock life on the rock road, and I was starting to wonder what I would be like to rent my own apartment, what it would be like to have a checkbook.

Being a rock star rocks.

I always found the road exciting. I liked stinking hotels and freezing dressing rooms.