Marcus Brigstocke Quotes

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 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'm quite tame as touring musicians go.

After leaving Queen, I decided to stop doing those mega-four-month tours. I go out for a month, and my dog recognizes me when I come home.

I definitely think that touring is a really crazy lifestyle and makes it hard to live a normal life and have relationships and friendships.

When I was on the road full-time, there was about an eight, nine year stretch where I averaged, conservatively, 250 days a year out on the road. That's basically you fly into a town, you get a Rent-A-Car, find a hotel, go to the gym, you eat, you go to the arena, go back to the hotel, you wake up, go to the airport and go somewhere else.

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

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

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.

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

People see you onstage and the glamorous side, but they don't see you traveling 600 miles a night, eating truck stop food and spending by yourself staring at walls.

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

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

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

It's funny to think that at 22 years old, I was really burned out from being on the road for 10 years.

Ninety percent of touring is a logistical maneuver, moving your body and everyone else's from one city to the next. You're like a piece of gear. Then you jump out of the box, get onstage, and play. That sounds cynical, but it sucks to move around so much.

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.

When you give your life over to your touring schedule, it's so grueling, you have to have moments where you have your own comfort places.

Being in a band can be really toxic to being in a relationship, considering all the touring and everything. Sometimes when you're on tour, it feels like you're living the same day over and over again.

In its current incarnation in my life touring is a lot of airports and hotels and car services and only OK food.

I've got used to touring. If you make calculations of the nights spent in hotels in my life, multiplied by the tattoos I have for hundred.

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.

I hear a lot of artists become kinda self-referential, and a lot of people that tour a lot tend to write about the perils of being on the road later in their careers.