Blackbear Quotes

Flying private is cool, but the tour bus is like a home that you can decorate.

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

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

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.

You never get tired of the buzz of touring.

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

A lot of bands live and breathe out of hotels. I just happen to be the one that lives on my bus. I have camped and RVed my entire life.

I'm quite tame as touring musicians go.

I spent my life on the road touring, and a lot of the songs are written in tour buses and hotel rooms.

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

We've been touring ever since we were able to afford to buy a van, and I don't think we'll ever stop until something falls off or is irreparable.

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

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.

A lot of '2112' was written in the back seat of a car and in cold dressing rooms while on tour in northern Ontario.

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

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.

Whereas for me, touring tends to be a very strange and isolating experience.

Touring is very grueling. It's very taxing on the body and living out of your suitcase, going from city to city, night after night. It's a tough job.

Traveling a lot and touring, you're in and out of hotels, and you don't have any comforts around.

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

Getting on the bus and touring was my life. And when that was not around, I felt myself a bit lost at times, because that was all I had.

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 hung out with Merle Haggard on his bus, which sort of freaks me out. It was him and his wife. We played with Merle in Oklahoma City. I'm from Arizona, and we talked about Arizona, and he remembered playing for two dollars a day down there at a bar.

My favorite city is anything close to home. Anytime I can sleep in my own bed, that's a good one.