Olly Murs Quotes

I toured for 13 years, and it was very lonely, and it was hard work.

When you're on tour, you really don't get to hang out with and spend the holidays with your family and friends. And there isn't usually much of a break in between performance dates.

Touring is real demanding. You swing between sadness and euphoria. But for us to cry about it isn't fair.

With my hours, I don't hang out with anybody. I work and come home to my Upper West Side apartment.

If I'm not working, I have a habit of becoming rather insular.

When I was on my own in a hotel room in Romania, I had the imagination to keep myself occupied.

The manager is by himself. He can't mingle with his players. I enjoyed my players, but I could not socialize with them so I spent a lot of time alone in my hotel room. Those four walls kind of close in on you.

I was shy and really into my school work and my drama. Then I joined 'EastEnders' at 16, and it was work, work, work. You become very isolated. I rarely went out and so didn't get to meet anyone.

My mother isolated herself from all family and friends for some 20 years. And never met her grandchild, my son.

At the beginning, I really wanted to be home with my kid. I was a product of my generation. But in the suburbs, you are very isolated, really alone.

I don't have time for friends.

During the holiday season, Christmas specifically, it can be hard to be away from family and friends.

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.

Writing can be a very solitary profession, and when deadlines are looming, it's tempting to glue myself to my desk, but I try to make sure I get out a few times a month with friends just so I don't forget what it means to be social.

I don't have that many family and friends.

My career always took me away from home, I was always away from home and I just wanted to be at home.

Touring is really a pretty lonely business.

I think if you alienate people and just focus on your work then it just becomes lonely and it's not fun anymore.

The hardest thing about being at Sony was not the travel; it was being divorced from the public and private life I had in New York. Travelling as much as I did, while I didn't lose connection with my friends, I lost a sense of belonging.

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

I never had tons of friends on tour. I was quiet and went about my business.

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.

Touring is an incredibly isolated situation. I don't know how people tour for years on end. You find a lot of people who can't stop touring, and it's because they don't know how to come back into life. It's sort of unreal.

I spend my life essentially alone at a computer. That doesn't change. I have the same challenges every day.

I become absolutely reclusive when I'm not working, to the point where I question whether I can actually do it again.