Touring can be really tiring. I can get homesick, and I spend a lot of time on my phone.
Right now I can't be sure that I will be back on stage. We have been touring for two years and that is way too much.
I'd rather make music than tour.
I hate touring beyond measure. I don't like all the travelling and the hotel rooms. But the hour and a half on stage each night keep me going.
I don't have any desire to go back into the studio, and I certainly don't have any desire to go back on the road.
Being in Pentatonix, we basically toured year round, so it was tough to just get a break.
When you tour, it's so hard on the body. Being in one place is cool. It's a more stable environment.
As far as the Animals breaking up - it was my fault. I wanted out. We took it to the max, as far as we could take it. Our reunion tour in 1983 went pretty good until we left America. Then we pushed it too hard and it fell apart.
Doing interviews and touring are two ways that I can try to bring my music to people. It can be tiring, but it's better than working at Burger King.
George Harrison and John Lennon were the ones most against touring ... I'd been trying to say ..Ah, tourings good and it keeps us sharp .. but finally I agreed with them
I'd been touring for so long, seven years. For a year and a half I'd just been curious about what it was like not to tour. It's like if you were to lift a 100-pound barbell with your right arm for seven years, eventually you'd get really curious about what your left arm was capable of.
Touring is real demanding. You swing between sadness and euphoria. But for us to cry about it isn't fair.
Hydroxycut keeps me going while on tour. It's a grind on the road, and I'm excited to be joining the team.
I only toured for three months. As soon as I got off [tour], I was just dying to start recording, because it was on my mind: 'I've got to make another record now.' And I was totally excited.
There’s no romance in the details [of touring] anymore for me. But as soon as we’re walking onstage and until we walk off after the encore, I feel totally alive and completely satisfied with my work.
After every tour, I think about hanging up the touring hat, and after a while of not working, I'm ready to play. I think I enjoy playing music more than I enjoy not playing music.
For better or for worse, I just have to be on tour for some portion of the year. But it's not easy, you know. It's not easy on the people you love, and I understand when people look at this life and say this isn't sustainable.
We're on tour for six months out of the year.
When you've toured for about 10 years like me, you end up feeling like you're always waiting for somebody or something. The whole day is a drag.
Eventually, when I sell enough units, as they say in the record business, I will stop touring. I'll concentrate on what I like to do... stay in the studio.
My whole life was writing, recording and touring over and over again. At some point I realised I wasn't enjoying myself any more.
One of the negative sides of a really intense arc as a touring band is there are big gaps in your memory because you're so exhausted.
I don't think I ever had a certain image of what touring was like... I think when you're young, you think it's very glamourous, but it's not.
The idea of going on tour for the rest of my life with old works is not that exciting. As an artist I definitely think the work in future is going to be better than the work in the past, otherwise why do it?
Over the years my voice has been destroyed from excessive touring... and I love it.
