Theophilus London Quotes

I have been very fortunate to be a part of tours with other artists that have exposed me to new places that I've never been before. Once you discover something beautiful, you just want to keep coming back.

I've been on the road for four years. I won't recognise the place again, until I walk out on stage.

When we are on tour we also take chances.

As an actor, you know, I love not being pigeonholed, which is great. No one really knows who I am. So that's a positive.

Travelling, and being paid for it, is just great.

I became an actor so I didn't have to be myself.

I don't like to travel as much as I have in the past, but it's good for my soul to get to pick, especially with these good musicians and these guys that play so well.

As I traveled from one country to another, no one knew anything about me. So I could be anybody, I could speak as I wished, act as I wished, dress as I wished.

I'll sing as long as I can because I enjoy doing that. I enjoy the fans and what I do. I love the traveling and the hotels and just seeing the world over and over again.

To be able to pretend to be something that I'm frankly not is very liberating and exciting.

I don't know about relationships. Maybe I'm supposed to travel and make films and meet people and have adventures instead.

The road is a fun place, and it's a great place to get out there and explore the country. But as far as the road life with the 'rock n' roll temptations,' there's not much of that with me.

I don't get recognised until I'm on stage, and then I can walk off and forget about it. It's great.

Touring is great because I love to travel.

When we've finished the current tour I'm going to go back to Italy and see if I can do some more writing.

That's probably half the reason I wanted to be in a band - I wanted to see the world.

I like going to France, because no one knows who I am.

Filmmaking is a great adventure. I'm as excited as a kid to be given tickets to fly suddenly to England, South Africa, America, everywhere. I'm still a 13-year-old kid, flying.

Acting is a very important thing for me, and I love doing it. But when I'm acting, I spend 14 hours a day and months a time being someone else. When I'm singing, I just get to be me.

I was raised in a large family. The first reason for my travel was to get away from my family. I knew that I wanted to be a writer, but I didn't want people to ask me questions about it.

I have this sensation of being in flight all the time, but being on stage is like creating a sanctuary in which you can completely lose yourself. The bits of your personality that you keep under wraps in ordinary life, you can let them run free.

I love being onstage. I love the relationship with the audience. I love the letting go, the sense of discovery, the improvising.

Traveling the world was a constant thing, rich with experiences. But all of it was relative to being able to play live onstage and really stretch out.

Training readers to expect a voice or subject matter from me would interfere with the reinvention I crave. At the same time, I feel almost too able to disappear at times.

You get very inspired on tour.