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A lot of people can't stand touring but to me it's like breathing. I do it because I'm driven to do it.
As you get up in your thirties, the van touring is not a possibility anymore. We can't all be Mike Watt.
I like touring, I like being in the studio, a bit of both. I like to have a bit of time at home as well.
Touring with Blink helped introduce people to Alkaline Trio who otherwise wouldn't have ever heard of us.
The touring part is really mixed. You love to play and you can't wait to go, but you don't want to leave.
Duncan Aldrich has been my partner in most recording projects, and touring projects, for the past decade.
Touring, and being in a band, it's almost like the other stuff, the other parts of life, get put on hold.
It's a different feeling; I like touring and playing on the road better, but recording has its good spots.
I spent 15 years on the road between touring and recording and I never saw anything. I want to enjoy life.
I keep working mainly because my wife and I spend most of our time touring the country doing our own plays.
I find it hard to get enthusiastic about hotels because, as a touring comic, I spend a lot of time in them.
Then we're going to take a lot of time off because in the last three years we've been touring continuously.
Being a writer now is about so much more than writing. There's publishing, touring, marketing, web presence.
Touring and promoting and recording take a lot of time, it's just getting the right balance that's important.
Songwriting is the other weight on the opposite side of the scale from touring. They balance me out creatively.
In its current incarnation in my life touring is a lot of airports and hotels and car services and only OK food.
So many people moan about touring and say it's a chore. I don't know, they must be living on a different planet.
It's one thing to be twenty and touring the world, but doing it in your forties, you wake up with aches and pains.
I really don't work a whole lot as far as touring, but I do stand-up every night of my life, no matter where I am.
When you're touring, it's somehow hard to focus on other things. I know other people can do it, but I really can't.
I like touring extensively because I think the more hours you spend onstage, the more you know who you are onstage.
I keep telling everybody that touring has now become my normal life and that normal life is like a very odd vacation.
A lot of the touring stuff has become a drag. Traveling itself is a drag. Anyone who's been to an airport knows that.
With 'Verdict' I was away for six months, touring, with a week in each town. I did not really enjoy that aspect of it.
In my touring rig, there's a pedal drawer, where I'm able to switch pedals in and out, going into the front of the amp.
When I was about seven, I started touring the globe as part of New York's La MaMa theater company - without my parents!
I don't drink anymore. That's a huge - that's a massive - difference in my life. It's made a huge change in my touring.
I've been touring a lot, and I don't always know how to get around. Google Maps on the iPhone is pretty helpful with that.
I'll give up this sort of touring madness certainly, but music-everything is based on music. No, I'll never stop my music.
I was touring a lot... I loved the touring because you could really feel the audience. You were much closer to everything.
Performing on stage is addictive. The adrenaline rush is exhilarating. When I stop touring for a couple weeks, I get antsy.
I started so old, so the touring world will always be a foreign land for me. I'll never be someone who's "been on the road."
I played around with the idea of touring with a soul revue, with Smokey Robinson, Sam Moore, Darlene Love, people like that.
Over a year's time, I felt like I squeezed in five years of touring experience, which was a really huge help moving forward.
I try to avoid gaining weight as much as possible because it hinders my performance onstage. Touring demands so much energy.
I cannot work on a Revamp album when I tour with Nightwish. And I cannot do any Nightwish stuff when I'm touring with Revamp.
'Girls Go Wild' was born out of a Joshua Tree excursion with some close friends after coming home from a long bit of touring.
Touring on 'Folie' was like being the last act at the vaudeville show: We were rotten vegetable targets in clandestine hoods.
Yeah, touring can get rough some times and draining, but I always have to pinch myself and realize that I'm doing what I love.
Grupo Limite is always going to be a major highlight of my life. We worked so hard, sometimes touring for 10 months at a time.
I've probably gone a month or two without playing guitar, just because I've gotten so burnt on it touring all year or whatever.
I couldn't be touring unless my husband was on the road with me, taking care of our son while I'm onstage and doing interviews.
I don't need to be the singer of Nightwish 24/7 when I'm not touring or when I want to go to the supermarket in my comfy pants.
I feel like what's important is to interact with your fans online. Touring is really important to stay connected with your fans.
I make my money off of touring and merchandise. And I'm lucky I have really loyal fans that understand how it works and support.
My whole life was writing, recording and touring over and over again. At some point I realised I wasn't enjoying myself any more.
Mental health is personal for our whole band. As touring musicians, self-care can quickly become make it or break it on the road.
It was nice to be home for a change. Nice to be with my husband. Nice to be with the kids. But it's also nice to be touring again.
I remember touring the Medici palace in Florence when I was younger and I was entranced by the beauty and elegance of every space.
It was weird [touring with them]. It felt more like we were playing for Phoenix. They asked us because they're fans of what we do.