Greg Davies Quotes

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.

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.

But the soul of touring and the heart of it is basically every day is like putting up a circus tent.

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.

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

Touring is a young man's game, but after 30 years of it, I want to stay home.

It's in my blood to tour. It's in my blood to get on the road. It's in my blood to go onstage.

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.

When I'm on tour, I'm in a new city every single night, and the energy and the crowds and the kids and the screaming and them knowing every single word of my music and being onstage is such an energetic feeling with a big payoff.

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.

A lot of people can't stand touring but to me it's like breathing. I do it because I'm driven to do it.

My touring has never stopped; from the time I started doing stand-up, I've been on the road.

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

The best part of touring is the opportunity to make the music. You get to do what you love and have the ability to go out on stage every night and create.

It seems effortless and fun, and obviously it's hard work, but we love road life.

There are definitely some nights where the show is over, and you're on the bus or a hotel room, and it's sort of a shock to go from being in the atmosphere of a club or a theater and be at your own show to being by yourself in a hotel room.

If somebody needed a guitar player for a tour and I was free and it was the right situation, I'd do it and it would be good fun. There would be much less pressure if I just had to stand there and play leads.

The best part of touring has to be playing shows.

I'd stay on tour for the rest of my life if I could. It's awesome.

Driving from town to town, living in hotels, sometimes not going home during the week because you have an appearance - you really have to be dedicated to do this job.

I hate touring beyond measure. I don't like all the travelling and the hotel rooms. But the hour and a half on stage each night keep me going.

I'm so lucky to do what I do, traveling across the country and making people laugh.

I think traveling as much as we do and being on the road, the craziest thing is probably having our own little tour bus.