Dave Lombardo Quotes

I just completed a tour in Europe. I played every night. This requires traveling some days for six hours in a van or a train or a car. After six weeks of that, I checked into the hotel and just fell apart.

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

I don't write on tour. There is so much to do day in and day out when you are on the road.

I don't mind traveling that much when I can go somewhere and stay there for a while, but touring is different. You rarely see anything. You get there early in the morning and you're resting all day, and you go in and do a sound check, and you do the show, and then bam you're gone.

Yeah, about sixteen to twenty weeks a year. For example, we can do America in six or seven weeks. You can do Europe in three weeks; England in two weeks. South America you could do in three weeks; Asia you could do in three weeks.

I mean, what's great about touring is that's what you do. You're in a constant state of motion and then you stop to do a show and you move onto the next city. All you have to do is do the show. That's the only responsibility that you have.

I'm going to go out on tour when I feel like going on tour.

For us as entertainers traveling, the schedule gets really crazy - flying all the time, being on a bus tour, changing hotels every day. And it's challenging.

I do some concerts. At the moment, I'm being helped a lot by a gig I play in London, which is Pizza Express.

The worst thing about touring is the travel.

When Ozzy calls and asks you to go on tour, you say, 'When do I start?'

I love to perform. But I don't like the traveling.

Although I have been pretty vocal about hating touring, the only part of touring I don't like is being on the bus and bouncing around.

After two world tours where we played every state but Greenland, I only saw the inside of a hotel. I wouldn't have missed it for the world, but it did get tiring.

Most of your day is spent working, and being in a band is no different. We're just business travelers in a way.

My specific goal is for Twice is to travel across the U.S. together, performing for fans in every state. That would be a dream!

Performing live can be a drag, the process that leads up to the actual performance. It's all the travel, it's working up all the details and everything, which I hate.

My first tour I was on the road for 18 months. You're just out there promoting.

I'm very fit on tour. I try to eat well, try to sleep. But it's still rock n' roll.

I think touring is hard.

I've worked with a band, and it's nice to have someone to travel around with, but I didn't like it as well on stage.

Being on the road is like a campout. I'm the only girl. The guys in my band are like my big brothers. It's definitely an adventure, but it can be a nomadic lifestyle.

I'm going to play as much as they want me to, as long as I can put up with what they book me.

But I don't want to do no big tours or go out on the road.

Being in a band is far more than playing an instrument. It's surviving. It's getting an album together.