We did 300 shows in our first two years.
When I am on the road and heading to my next venue, I think about my audience.
It's hard to say exactly when it all started or what show it was, but I started touring when I was 11. I played all over Dallas and Fort Worth, and eventually I was touring the whole state.
I've been to Philadelphia a lot of times over the years, playing the old Celebrity Room and most of the other clubs around there that don't exist anymore.
When you make your living as a singer, you have to go where the gigs are.
I played a lot of nightclubs in and around Tulsa till I was about 22, 24 years old, then I started travellin' around.
I always tell people, 'The music's free. I get paid to travel.'
You gotta do both. You've got to be on those big tours, and you've got to be in the clubs.
The best part of touring has to be playing shows.
I enjoyed the two years I was with Clannad. I enjoyed touring. We toured a lot in Europe.
Being someone who plays gigs and finding many, many memorable ones in different ways, I guess I'd have to say I don't really have a single favourite one that I could pick out.
Yeah, about sixteen to twenty weeks a year. For example, we can do America in six or seven weeks. You can do Europe in three weeks; England in two weeks. South America you could do in three weeks; Asia you could do in three weeks.
Other than Caroline's in New York, I pretty much haven't done clubs. That was primarily because I always liked the people and audiences at theaters and bars better.
My dream is to tour for 50 years.
We'll always play different venues. We'll play small clubs or stadiums or things in between.
In the '80s, we played the Roxy and the Whiskey with our bands.
For me, the exhausting thing about touring is the sitting around, which is why working on my concert music is really great - and also seeing concerts and seeing friends and, whenever possible, getting out to see a museum.
I can go from one extreme to another, from playing at the Sydney Opera House on the Songbook tour to shows with Soundgarden at Voodoo Fest, all in a week.
I love being on the road. I love that lifestyle, traveling city to city, rocking out and moving on to the next place.
I think there is more comedians now than ever, more venues now than ever. There are stand-ups who live in towns where they don't have many comedy clubs where they are organizing more comedy nights in bars. I just think this is a fantastic time for stand up.
I probably go to 100 shows a year.
The stand-up world is very, very hard. There is a lot of competition, and there are not that many venues, and there are not that many opportunities. You have really got to stand out.
So I'm in my 51st year of playin' mostly nightclubs. I do some concerts.
At the beginning of the tour, I arrange the live show exactly like the album, but of course from one audience to another, from one venue to another, it can become longer.
I have been coming to Los Angeles since 1975 to perform.
