Skylar Laine Quotes

I think my biggest achievement is still going out on the road and wanting to make music on the road. It doesn't matter to me that I am still travelling around because I just love everything about it, I love the lifestyle, and I love being on stage.

I've been traveling around to play music since before I even had a driver's license.

I mean, what's great about touring is that's what you do. You're in a constant state of motion and then you stop to do a show and you move onto the next city. All you have to do is do the show. That's the only responsibility that you have.

I'm most in my element on tour, with a gig that day, like today. I'm on the road where I am supposed to be. I will be where I'm supposed to be at nighttime, on stage, in front of people, doing my thing.

I was very lucky to have had the opportunity to tour with the Beastie Boys and watched almost every set they played on all those dates. Why not? You do your set and then you get to see the Beasties play? Best deal in town.

When I turned 30, I started to feel all those miles. At times, you want to turn the faucet off a bit, but I never want to stop traveling. That's what it's all about - taking the music to the people.

I don't write on tour. There is so much to do day in and day out when you are on the road.

You know, being an entertainer is partly being on the road, and a lot of your songs come from the road.

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.

I love going on tour and playing music for people.

For us as entertainers traveling, the schedule gets really crazy - flying all the time, being on a bus tour, changing hotels every day. And it's challenging.

You have to spend a lot more time on the road these days if you want to make a living with music.

I've been touring through Texas since I was 15, on my first tour ever.

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.

As you're touring there are so many layers to a live show, it has always been important for me to have a guitar that I can use live and in the studio.

Within a few hours I had them off, was about ready to play the shows. That night I opened, and during the week Harris was over to the house to talk my mother into letting me leave home.

I do play drums when I'm on tour.

We just done doing The Blessed Hellride tour and Ozzfest.

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.

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

You don't write on tour; it takes all your concentrating to make the gig - that's survival technique. Afterwards, you run around town to find interesting hipsters and go to all the interesting spots. You got to go to every hotspot until everything has closed down.

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.

Touring is my religion. Music is all-encompassing - my religion.

We've played everywhere since I started The Licks. We've played arenas, clubs, school cafeterias and bowling alleys. It doesn't matter where the venue is; we're gonna bring you the rock!

I still enjoy the heck out of getting up there to play shows every night.