Andrew Eldritch Quotes

Broadway is another monster. I've been touring since I was 12 years old and I love being on the road - one day you're here, next day it's snowing, and the next you are in a desert and it's 110 degrees. So I guess I'm kind of used to the madness physically that you go to when you are an entertainer. But it's been great.

When you're on book tours, you definitely need chocolate. At all times.

And it's tough traveling. You know, the hotels and the airports and all that. That part, eating and getting around to the hotel room and then going on.

I have no problem paying my dues and I have no problem going out and working the club circuit.

Hmmmm... It's fun being in front of people, playing shows and all. But hotels? Being away from home? That's different.

I love being on tour and having my own tour bus.

I don't even listen to music when I'm off tour.

I love being new places and hate getting there, and have been known to say on multiple occasions that I would give anything from a piece of my soul to a limb to a portion of my life savings to teleport. Especially when bad weather keeps me off planes.

There's nothing like theater. It's really amazing. But it does take up all of your time. I would like to get into more film, just because I find it super fascinating.

I always feel comfortable, basically in any situation except perhaps airports.

I've done every kind of touring known to mankind. I've played the big and the small places.

I see all the red carpet paparazzi stuff and I'm like, 'Really? Do I have to?!' I like to work and I know that's part of the job. But you kind of take it in stride.

The worst thing about touring is the travel.

Writing a book is not as tough as it is to haul thirty-five people around the country and sweat like a horse five nights a week.

I love stand up, but every year, the road takes a little more out of you.

I don't think I'm ever going to retire from stand-up, but what I have retired from is working the road every week.

Playing shows is really fun. And writing music is really fun. But going on tour for a year is one of the more soul-crushing experiences you can have as a creative person.

I don't enjoy the road life or WWE's really hectic schedule.

There's parts of touring I like. I like the actual performance part, but the bit when you're in the airport waiting at the carousel for your bags to come around, I don't like that a bit.

When you're doing eight shows a week, you don't have much of a personal life.

I've loved to be a part of anything, having an opportunity to entertain, to be a part of a film, or just continue to do what I'm doing, I'm so happy, so just making town after town, doing my thing, but if I have that opportunity to star in a film or be an extra, I don't care; its all a learning experience for me.

[On being an actor] .nothing more than a worker in a service occupation . It's like being a waiter or a gas station attendant, but I'm waiting on 6 million people in a week if I'm lucky.

Flying is always an unpleasant experience. You wait an hour for every ten minutes you actually spend getting anywhere.

I'm like everyone else, on the stage it's good. Not too much fun in the hotel or the airplane or the bus, but you got to do it.

I like being on stage. I love seeing new cities and returning to cities that I love. It can be a little tiring because you don't sleep in your own bed, you're in a different hotel every night and the hours are really strange, which, for me, kind of works out because I'm a bit nocturnal in general. I think for some people it might be tougher than for others because you're usually not getting to sleep until 3 or 4 in the morning at the earliest.