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I make money from touring and selling merchandise, and I honestly believe if you put effort into something and you execute properly, you don't necessarily have to go through the traditional ways.

I don't do drugs anymore... than, say, the average touring funk band.

I toured Ontario in the winter of '48, in a touring company of The Drunkard, in which I played the bartender.

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.

Electro is today's disco - making electronic music not for the sake of selling it but for sharing it and touring around the world D.J.-ing.

The world is crawling with authors touring now. They're like performance artists.

That's one of the great things about touring. It makes you machinelike in a way that you can re-create this music not only in the right way but even better than when it was conceived.

I'm super serious about that stuff. I mean, it's rare that I sit down at a drum set when I'm not touring, because we tour so much.

Touring is really a pretty lonely business.

I felt pressured by continuous touring.

I like a challenge. I need to feel passionate about something. If I'm not passionate about it, I can't stand it. It has to feel real. DJ'ing, touring, charity work - anything.

I'm really happy doing what I'm doing. I'm not looking to do anything else. I love what I do. I love music. I love playing. I love touring.

I toured in Europe first, before I did any touring in the U.S. It was with Jimmy Nail and others.

I don't do interviews at all when I'm on tour, so this time, on a day off, I'll do that kind of thing a little bit. I don't do big promotion schedules, not when I'm touring.

I realized that I don't like touring. I'll never complain about it because no one wants to hear about a relatively successful musician complain about the hardships of staying in a hotel.

Touring is hard on the body.

In general I usually don't really go by or live my life by a clock and outside of touring I don't really ask anyone else to. It's not out of lack of respect for anyone or intentional.

In the crazy world of touring, if something gets stuck at customs, I can do a show with just my amp!

I love tour, but I don't like traveling at night or driving long hours. But I love touring. If my kids could be out there full time, I'd probably never go home.

I've been on the road for so long that it's a part of my being. Even after all these years, I love playing. I love recording. I love writing. I love rehearsing. I love touring. I love all that stuff.

Inspiration is tough to define, it comes from so many different places. I have multiple exhibitions touring the globe, so I do travel quite a bit and travel is a great way to find inspiration.

Well, I've never been in a touring rock band, it was all just high school and college, playing toga parties in frat houses.

I would have wanted to be a rock star, a lead singer, if I wasn't a model. I'd go touring in a bus with my band. In my next life, that's the plan.

Touring and putting out records is fun and cool, but I've been doing it for a long time.

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.

But the soul of touring and the heart of it is basically every day is like putting up a circus tent.

I've talked to some drummers who seem to have a very hard time staying in shape on the road, including some drummers touring with high-profile acts that don't have to live on fast food every night.

The problem with touring isn't the traveling and the shows, it's the vegetal state you get into.

Touring is what you make it. I like to organise as much as possible myself.

I won't apologize for ticket prices. I think we're well worth it. We consider ourselves in the elite touring acts, like the Stones, Elton John, Paul McCartney.

Touring and promoting and recording take a lot of time, it's just getting the right balance that's important.

I suppose it's unfair, tricks of argument that leave wounds, but with this sort of thing that (C.S.) Lewis does, what I feel is a craftsman's joy at the sight of a superior performance.

When youre touring and the minute you tell someone that youre from Jersey its the equivalent of telling them you just got out of jail.

Touring for two years is excruciating.

You never get tired of the buzz of touring.

I think if you retire from touring, then people think you are retired.

The best part of touring, still, is touching people's hearts and igniting my band and igniting the people into what you call a spiritual revelation is sound and emotion.

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.

Money's really - you know, song writing, yes, there's money to be made and things like that. But really, when you talk about the real money, you talk about touring. No question.

A lot of the touring stuff has become a drag. Traveling itself is a drag. Anyone who's been to an airport knows that.

We toured that record for a year, which turned out to be the culmination of ten years of being constantly on the road. We were sick to death of touring.

I guess some of today's programming has rubbed off on me because I find myself having to set time around for touring, putting that together and then setting time around for recording.

I learned so much about playing and touring being on the road and in the studio with Jeff, but I'd always played a lot of gigs in Seattle even prior to joining the Fusion.

I'm quite grateful to the BBC. They helped me back onto the touring circuit.

We got touring with the Stones, and people were trying to keep up with Keith. He's like a human machine with a constitution of iron, and they all thought they could do the same.

Touring doesn't kill me and I can handle it.

In 1968 the Arts Council managed to get a grant from the treasury to buy up a lot of derelict touring theatres and put them back in the hands of the local authorities.

Songwriting is the other weight on the opposite side of the scale from touring. They balance me out creatively.

So when you start touring, women are definitely going to check you out first.

Touring is a favorite part of what I do. I love connecting with the fans in that immediate way.