Tom Araya Quotes

I love to ride horses, hike in the woods with Juliette and appraise Longhorns.

I keep endlessly busy with all kinds of stuff, mostly horses, cattle, livestock, things like that.

I grew up on a farm. We had 11 dogs and, like, 1,500 cattle.

I constantly tour, even when I don't have a record out.

The years keep going by and you realize, Wow. Doing these records is such a process: going on tour for a year and a half, then you get home and you want to do other things.

Rickey got a big ranch. Rickey got a big bull. Rickey got horses. Rickey got chickens and everything. And Rickey got a 20-gallon hat.

Most of my career has been about standing on a stage performing music to an audience, and once the show is over, they go home and I go on to the next show.

We live on a 500-acre ranch, beautiful ranch.

Now I live in the middle of nowhere on a working cattle ranch.

I've got cattle on 4,000 acres about 100 miles east of Dallas, but I've also got another 65-acre ranch where I raise American miniature horses.

I just want to live on the road. I can't understand artists that don't want to perform and, like, get on stage and do their songs for all their fans every night. If I'm not performing every night, I get totally depressed. I know that sounds really weird, but I hate sitting at home and not having a 1 A.M. performance now. It kills me.

Penn State has also continued to be a leader in Pennsylvania's largest industry: Agriculture.

When I'm doing music and I'm on the road, I love it. But once I'm home, it's very difficult to go back out on the road.

My first full year of touring, I did 300 days on the road. That was not including the travel time or publicity or anything else - that was just dates. I was home probably less than 50 days that year.

My uncle always said that I could have been a rancher.

I have three cows, and I'm looking forward to more in the future, so I'll have a little herd.

We have two dogs, Mabel and Wolf, and three cats at home, Charlie, George and Chairman. We have two cats on our farm, Tom and Little Sister, two horses, and two mini horses, Hannah and Tricky. We also have two cows, Holy and Madonna. And those are only the animals we let sleep in our bed.

I wanted to be a cattle rancher when I was young, because it was what I knew and I loved it.

The second purchase was my ranch, Mockingbird Hill. The third purchase was Longhorn cattle.

Cattle, horses, mules, asses... may be pastured on this land or place which is public property of the Roman people, … nor need anyone be charged tax or rental for this privilege.

I grew up on a ranch in Walla Walla, Washington. Except for one lawyer, I don't remember anyone in my family being anything else but ranchers.

When I was growing up, we had cats, dogs, guinea pigs, rabbits, goats, chickens - a whole menagerie.

You know, growing up in the cattle business, I know a lot about cattle.

I own a ranch in Texas, so there's always something to do as far as work goes, whether it's tractor stuff or tearing down fence.

My father had all these great names for our cows. Bossy and Daisy and Petunia and Turnip. One of my jobs was to round up the cows before milking. I'd go out back with the dog and bring them in.