Joshua Bell Quotes

The touring part is really mixed. You love to play and you can't wait to go, but you don't want to leave.

With 'Verdict' I was away for six months, touring, with a week in each town. I did not really enjoy that aspect of it.

If you just do 50 to 60 shows a year, it's not that much time away from home.

I still like going on the road and performing, but it's getting tougher. I try to have my wife and the twins with me but it's getting harder and harder for them. They need to be in a home environment and not traveling with me.

I don't think I ever had a certain image of what touring was like... I think when you're young, you think it's very glamourous, but it's not.

We've always enjoyed touring, which is fortunate because we're always on the road. The most difficult part is that time passes by so quickly. It's hard to pay attention to your normal life because shows are all-encompassing.

Ninety percent of touring is a logistical maneuver, moving your body and everyone else's from one city to the next. You're like a piece of gear. Then you jump out of the box, get onstage, and play. That sounds cynical, but it sucks to move around so much.

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

I don't like being away from home. That's one reason why I don't work as much as I used to [when I started my career], because so many things are on the road. I just don't want to be away from my husband, my dogs and my home. I don't sing that much any more because that also takes you on the road.

What I love is a good role. In the theatre, there is just a canon of extraordinary roles, the quality of character is amazing, but I also love working in front of a camera. It was the first one for me; as a kid I was in front of a camera. I feel at home.

Touring can be tough; the crew and I travel everywhere by a big pink bus, and live in petrol stations.

Actually, I'm quite a domesticated person. I love the little things of home.

I am actually really boring and I lead a quiet life. I love being at home, cooking for my boys, watching movies and I like nothing better than to go to bed early with a book.

People love having a home. People love going to their house and sleeping in their bedroom and having a conversation around the dinner table. You don't particularly think of that conversation as a private conversation; you just think of it as something that happened in your home.

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

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.

Retire? Not on your life. I have no plans to stop singing. What are you going to do when you love music? It's a terrible disease. You can't stop. Of course, I'd like to get off the road.

I love entertaining people, I love playing music, and I love rocking like an animal. But at a certain point, you're playing gig after gig after gig, in town after town after town, and you're lying down, staring at another hotel-room ceiling, and it's like, 'I want to be home. I'm a dad. I've got kids.'

I find it hard to get enthusiastic about hotels because, as a touring comic, I spend a lot of time in them.

As much as we all love playing live, it's not normal to be on the road all the time, to have no home.

For better or for worse, I just have to be on tour for some portion of the year. But it's not easy, you know. It's not easy on the people you love, and I understand when people look at this life and say this isn't sustainable.

I am a touring artist - I get a kick out of it, like, a huge kick.

Hydroxycut keeps me going while on tour. It's a grind on the road, and I'm excited to be joining the team.

So many people moan about touring and say it's a chore. I don't know, they must be living on a different planet.

I think the biggest challenge when I'm on the road is being away from my family.