Joanna Newsom Quotes

I pretty much live on my tour bus.I do well around 300 shows a year. A lot of times I will do two shows a night.

I laughed at Willie Nelson, wondering why he spends all his life on that tour bus. And I look at myself, and I'm sitting in airplanes half the time.

I'm basically always on tour.

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.

On tour, you never have a home, you don't get used to anything, and you're always super busy.

Touring is a young man's game, but after 30 years of it, I want to stay home.

I must have played every college and university at least three times, and that goes for most of the clubs. I'd be on the road six days a week, go home and change bags, and then be gone for another six days.

I'm doing a lot of touring and things have been really busy for me.

My first full year of touring, I did 300 days on the road. That was not including the travel time or publicity or anything else - that was just dates. I was home probably less than 50 days that year.

I like touring, I like being in the studio, a bit of both. I like to have a bit of time at home as well.

I always make the joke that I go home, to one of my homes, to go and do laundry so I can go on the road again.

I've never had an empty house. Ever.

Touring is starting to feel more like home than home does.

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

I just don't want to be the artist who's out on the road and has no real perspective of what's happening at home.

The thing is, I'll always be a touring artist. It's what I am; that's what I love doing.

Home is the grandest of all institutions.

Trying to cope with the balance between home life and road life has been a theme in my music since early Red House Painters records.

I've got a home. I've got a wife. I've got everything I need.

My priority is always the home.

I want to create a family with my fiance and be able to live a simple life and just be safe.

I don't really put cars in my videos because I'm always flying or on a tour bus.

As much as I love live performance and as much fun as it can be to travel around, it really is nice to be able to stay at home and make a living and pay the mortgage and spend time with my wife.

We're very happy in Munich. I have my kids here. Everything is perfect.

I definitely think that touring is a really crazy lifestyle and makes it hard to live a normal life and have relationships and friendships.