David Longstreth Quotes

With 'Verdict' I was away for six months, touring, with a week in each town. I did not really enjoy that aspect of it.

After leaving Queen, I decided to stop doing those mega-four-month tours. I go out for a month, and my dog recognizes me when I come home.

I don't really work on songs when we're touring because there's just too much other stuff going on.

If you just do 50 to 60 shows a year, it's not that much time away from home.

A lot of bands whine about the road and how tough it is.

When you tour, it's so hard on the body. Being in one place is cool. It's a more stable environment.

As much as we all love playing live, it's not normal to be on the road all the time, to have no home.

When you're in the same band as somebody, you're seeing them almost more than 24 hours a day. You start to see an awful lot of the bad side 'cause touring is no easy thing.

You spend more time with your fellow band members than your girlfriend or wife, and you end up at each other's throats. It happens to all bands.

Ninety percent of touring is a logistical maneuver, moving your body and everyone else's from one city to the next. You're like a piece of gear. Then you jump out of the box, get onstage, and play. That sounds cynical, but it sucks to move around so much.

When you're touring, you're working from the moment you wake up to the moment you got to bed. Sometimes you make up fun drama, because it can get a little boring, but that's all light-hearted fun so that's different.

After shows my face feels dirty with makeup and sweat, especially in the smaller venues, so it feels good to get back to the bus and smooth it away. Sometimes you need something alcohol-based, especially on tour when you don't always get a chance to keep washing your face all the time.

It's good to be playing one and a half hour again. In the States we played like an hour and when you got onstage it felt like all of a sudden you are already done your set. But now, it feels like we are touring again.

Touring is tough. You're almost in a haze because you don't really know where you are half the time: You're in a hotel room one moment, and the next thing you know, you're onstage performing for 60,000 people, then you're back on an airplane. It's very hectic and I couldn't do it without my family.

A touring band is a family and a workplace at the same time, and you're living with people you didn't necessarily choose every day for up to a year.

I think bands, when they're on the road, they keep their sanity by developing an internal sense of humor.

After I quit my band, I definitely was so full, like I'm so full I could never eat again. I had that kind of feeling where the elements, like the touring stuff, were harder for me and I definitely felt fine not experiencing it again.

If Daryl stopped touring it would be a big part of him missing.

I find it hard to get enthusiastic about hotels because, as a touring comic, I spend a lot of time in them.

I spent 15 years on the road between touring and recording and I never saw anything. I want to enjoy life.

The touring part is really mixed. You love to play and you can't wait to go, but you don't want to leave.

Touring, and being in a band, it's almost like the other stuff, the other parts of life, get put on hold.

I just kept touring and touring until it became second nature to go onstage, perform, and sing.

You don't write songs, really, when you're on tour.

We've always enjoyed touring, which is fortunate because we're always on the road. The most difficult part is that time passes by so quickly. It's hard to pay attention to your normal life because shows are all-encompassing.