Frankie Cosmos Quotes

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

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.

I've had the worst relationships because with touring it's impossible.

We tour, we do the distance from friends and family, not really knowing how to connect with people on the same level. I've understood now, as much as we tour, we live day-to-day, so our lives are much different than the people who stay at home and go home every night.

I keep telling everybody that touring has now become my normal life and that normal life is like a very odd vacation.

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

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 on tour, you really don't get to hang out with and spend the holidays with your family and friends. And there isn't usually much of a break in between performance dates.

The hardest part about touring is being away from family and friends. When you're gone for a long time, it's especially hard for me to remember to keep in touch with certain people because there's so much going on on the road.

I pretty much live on my tour bus.I do well around 300 shows a year. A lot of times I will do two shows a night.

You wrestle one night, get up the next morning and fly out to the next city. You try to work out, you try to get some food into you and, lo and behold, you have to go work again. You are living out of a suitcase.

Touring can be tough; the crew and I travel everywhere by a big pink bus, and live in petrol stations.

Taylor being married and so on, that does evolve the dynamic on the road.

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

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

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.

I've been touring for 25 years. I'm used to it, so I love it. Although I feel the tug of home, as I have three little kids, I don't suffer like some artists who constantly complain about how much they hate traveling.

I must have played every college and university at least three times, and that goes for most of the clubs. I'd be on the road six days a week, go home and change bags, and then be gone for another six days.

I laughed at Willie Nelson, wondering why he spends all his life on that tour bus. And I look at myself, and I'm sitting in airplanes half the time.

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

When you're recording in the midst of touring, you get a different sense about you. Things are more rocking, darker, heavier and louder. You're thinking about the audience that you're seeing every night.

I tour all year, 42 weeks a year, so it's hard for me to remember every place I play.

I toured for 13 years, and it was very lonely, and it was hard work.

I am a touring artist - I get a kick out of it, like, a huge kick.

I don't think I ever had a certain image of what touring was like... I think when you're young, you think it's very glamourous, but it's not.