Being a writer now is about so much more than writing. There's publishing, touring, marketing, web presence.
My favourite thing about touring is really the shows, because early on you can say it's definitely things like travel and seeing the world and stuff like that, but over time you don't really get to see the world. The most important thing in the day is the show. So that's why I do it.
I do like touring but my life sort of starts to fall apart under it after a certain point. So you just have to stop. And it's hard to.
Touring is definitely work. You're spending a lot of time in the car and around the same people and it's not the easiest thing in the world, but it's better than working a 9-to-5 job or something.
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. "
For me, touring is about looking after myself.
Music itself is going to become like running water or electricity. So it's like, just take advantage of these last few years because none of this is ever going to happen again. You'd better be prepared for doing a lot of touring because that's really the only unique situation that's going to be left.
My whole life was writing, recording and touring over and over again. At some point I realised I wasn't enjoying myself any more.
When young groups put out albums, they're always forced to go through this cycle of touring and talking and flaunting and posturing and peacocking. Nobody makes me do that anymore.
Something funny always happens in every show in the UK and I genuinely love touring the UK because it's where I'm from. I just get a warm feeling when I'm home.
Touring is very grueling. It's very taxing on the body and living out of your suitcase, going from city to city, night after night. It's a tough job.
I'm not going around touring the U. S. when I've got nowhere to live.
Women are interesting, but that isn't the problem, it is that I like being alone, and I'm also touring so much that it's hard to get a relationship to work.
I find myself more affected by music the more I do it. Particularly when you're touring and you're in the bus and you're listening to loads of music. Life becomes far more dramatic, I guess - you're never in the same place, you're constantly meeting new people. You almost become more sensitized to music.
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 think its more interesting to play a place where no one really knows you, but I think touring is also great.
Touring doesn't kill me and I can handle it.
I love touring in the United States. It's dramatically different wherever you go. North to south you're going from snow to palm trees.
It dawned on me at some point that our music makes certain people happy - I never thought we'd have that effect and it's really gratifying and humbling. My least favorite is the exhaustion that comes with traveling a lot, the touring related exhaustion. And the crazy thing is that we've all been doing this for years and your body never gets used to it - you always feel messed up. But it's a good problem to have.
When you're touring, you're constantly in motion.