Olly Alexander Quotes

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

I love being on tour; I love being on the road. It's the most amazing feeling ever. I live for it; I love it.

I love being on the road. I love that lifestyle, traveling city to city, rocking out and moving on to the next place.

There's something about being out here on the road that the hours aren't anything like what you're used to when you're at home.

I'm flying all around the world, and it's hard to be settled.

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 like being on stage. I love seeing new cities and returning to cities that I love. It can be a little tiring because you don't sleep in your own bed, you're in a different hotel every night and the hours are really strange, which, for me, kind of works out because I'm a bit nocturnal in general. I think for some people it might be tougher than for others because you're usually not getting to sleep until 3 or 4 in the morning at the earliest.

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'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.

It's always exciting to see different cities I love, and go on tour buses. It's so much fun to travel. My favorite part is being able to perform live in front of all these amazing people; being able to connect with them and seeing their reaction makes me feel very special.

We play a long show, and you can't beat yourself up too much over it, as physically you just kill yourself. It was always good fun on the road and it still is.

I love life on the road. I'm in a different city every night and it never gets old.

I had a blast doing the Warped Tour, but it's good to be home, for sure.

Being on the road, I think, is the most organised part of my life. You know where you have to be every day; you know what your job is every day. I crave that tiny bit of stability, which anyone else would think is the most unstable way of living, ever.

I think it's important for bands to rough it. Whether you're in a van or a bus, it's still tough. You still have to stand in a two hour catering line with flies everywhere in the heat, and you still have to lug your gear.

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

If things are crazy in the studio, usually the road is times 10.

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.

Being on the road has about 2 1/2 hours a day that are really great, and that's when you're onstage. The other 21 1/2 hours are very boring... It becomes like a void, and we chose to fill it with all the wrong things.

Each time I hit the road to gig, it still feels like I'm going to summer camp.

I don't want to slow down. It's my life. I love being on the road and giving concerts.

I love being on the road; I love traveling. I love interacting with the fans and friends and fans and metal on the way.

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.

What a lark! What a plunge!

You know, it's people's lives, so as you get a little older, your own life narrative, I guess, invades a little more. It's not like we're traveling in separate buses to each show. It's a labor of love, so we just do it because we like it. Maybe someone's gonna move, or not want to go on a tour for some reason - that could happen, I guess.