Aly Michalka Quotes

When I hit my 20s, I took a chill pill and relaxed because throughout my teens I was churning out an album a year. It was a treadmill of work then recording, promoting and touring.

I began the process of recording myself seriously in the fall of 1999. If I could finish an album of my own music, I would. Five years later I am happy to say I have.

There was an enormous amount of pressure when my first album took off, and I struggled with the speed of everything and the exhaustion from the constant touring.

I have been touring since I got my first band in 1962, so there is no problem there. We are basically performing musicians, so that's what we do.

We spend more time on the road and when we cut an album, it'll take us as long as six months.

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

The years keep going by and you realize, Wow. Doing these records is such a process: going on tour for a year and a half, then you get home and you want to do other things.

I'm usually going to make a record, finish a record, start a record or start a tour or between tours.

Yeah, I came in at the end of the Notorious album, played on about five tracks and then we went on a tour. Then we did another album, Big Thing, and then we started writing songs together in 1989.

I enjoy touring. I enjoy recording the music, I enjoy dreaming it and I enjoy performing it. I also definitely enjoy selling it, because I like to eat.

The 'Daryl's House' thing has made me into a live musician even more than I ever was, and even in the way I record.

I don't really plan to be a pop star; I just want to be able to make music without the whole My Dad thing hanging over me, which everyone in my position goes through.

Growing up, I thought it would be great if I could do big theaters. Now we're doing arenas.

I want to write my own music, and I want to tour.

I've spent most of my life playing with Tom Petty, and he's a damn good songwriter.

A lot of times I go back to record and to make a tour, but I'm very happy to do it, because it gives me an opportunity to dig and hear what's going on.

Music is my work, writing songs is my work, touring is my work, going into the studio is my work.

I'd love to be a hit in Germany. I'm working on trying to get a gig as David Hasselhoff's opening act.

The experiences of promoting my first album were really something; there is so much illusion in my environment (touring and pop music) that I wanted to clear away.

I do probably 60 concerts a year in the States. And I go out to clubs in the week. I'm doing new stuff all the time.

Being my own boss and working inside an industry that's not really an industry, I need to keep busy and keep working. The only way to make money in music - unless you're managing someone - is to tour, and even that depends on where you are at.

I do a lot of touring, yes, and I have my whole life ever since I was 19 years old, when I used to tour with Al Jarreau, Rickie Lee Jones, and Jackson Browne as a side musician.

If I could be a country music star, I'd do it in a heartbeat. I'd hit the road and just jam out.

I'm constantly fighting with my manager to reduce the amount of time I have to spend on promotional activities, so I can get back in the studio and work on new music.

I'd love to be a rockstar.