Tommy Shaw Quotes

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

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 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 love being on the road, I love playing.

I'm doing a lot of touring and things have been really busy for me.

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

I was doing back to back shows for four years.

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

I constantly tour, even when I don't have a record out.

But for me, I thought you made a record, you got on a bus, went out and played your shows and made a lot of money. That was the way it was supposed to go down. But there's a lot more to it than that. There are a lot of early mornings, late nights, a lot of traveling, a lot of being away from home, being away from your family.

I've dreamed of being on the road, traveling and touring, for as long as I've been into doing music. It's what I live for. I just wanna be Willie Nelson.

Being on tour is a giggle.

I've been on the road since 1967.

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'm actually at home when I'm not on tour, and I have a lot of downtime.

I spent well over a year on the road with Sarah Vaughn. That was amazing.

We did like 12 shows, then we did the entire Ozzfest with the first half completely booked; then we did the second half with a couple days off here and there.

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

I remember a tour where we played 50 cities in 56 days. We also went to Europe a couple of times.

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.

Every job has its downside. For example, being in a band; the travel part of it - getting picked up from your house in a car, going to the airport, getting on a plane, going from the airplane to a van, then going from the van to a hotel.

I love the road. The closest thing to home, for me, is being on a tour bus, ironically.

My hours get kinda backwards. Most of the time, we're basing out of one town, flying out, doing the show, then flying back. And it's a pace that no one would believe, really. Unless you've done it, you really can't understand what it is. And if you're not really experienced and know how to do it, you will fall.

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.

Touring is very tough.