Maren Morris Quotes

I don't like touring and it seemed to be getting on top of me in a big way.

Going on tour for 10 years straight and playing 200-plus shows a year, you can't ever come back from that mentally. You're twisted in a weird way where you need that in order to be a person still.

I hear a lot of artists become kinda self-referential, and a lot of people that tour a lot tend to write about the perils of being on the road later in their careers.

I did 100 concerts in 2010 and I had a bit of a burn out at the end of the year. I was absolutely exhausted and didn't want to do it any more.

Around 1978, I got really, really sick of waking up in hotel rooms when I don't know where I am.

I've done the big 12-city tours, and I'm never going to do that again - never. I was younger then. It wears you out, you know.

I was pretty burned out in '85 and was getting - starting to get into some issues.

I felt pressured by continuous touring.

My whole life was writing, recording and touring over and over again. At some point I realised I wasn't enjoying myself any more.

A guitar player goes on the road, and he misses his girlfriend for a while, but he manages to get along. A horn player gets out on the road, plays two or three towns, and then he'll get lonely, and next thing you know, he's packed up and left. It's better not to hire him in the first place.

I love what I do, but I never want to OD on celebrity.

I think a lot of bands are creatively knackered when they come off tour.

The hiatus you spoke about happened in 1998. I was somewhat numb from being out on the road every night. I had to stop because I was emotionally and physically drained.

I was burned out. I think I was just exhausted. It was a very intense five years. We didn't stop. It was constant touring, constant writing, recording.

When I'm doing music and I'm on the road, I love it. But once I'm home, it's very difficult to go back out on the road.

I don't miss being on the road right now because the thing is, I was on the road for eight years, so I love pizza, but pizza every day for eight years is a different thing.

I work every day. I was flying the other day. and I was like, where am I flying? I have no idea, I work so much.

I didn't want to get back into the whole industry. I left overworked, overwhelmed, and not having any control over my life. I was bulimic and needed to heal.

Sixteen years on the road is long enough. Twenty years is unthinkable.

I did the rock 'n roll-pop cliche of getting burnt out. I'm not the first person that happened to, and I'm sure I won't be the last.

I do live like a rock star, but it's not as great as it sounds. It's a lot of traveling.

I once went on the most grueling radio tour. Living in hotel rooms, sleeping in the backs of rental cars as my mom drove to three different cities in one day.

Creative burnout and physical burnout is real. I mean, there are moments when I get home - after overseeing, you know, almost 16 collections a year - where I can't move.

I get tired of the traveling.

We're on the road 300 days a year. There's no recovery time. It's a test of your physical and mental endurance.