Adrianne Lenker Quotes

Twisted Sister plays 20, 25 shows a year. But if the band had their druthers, they'd be out playing all the time.

I tour all year, 42 weeks a year, so it's hard for me to remember every place I play.

I only do about 25 shows a year and I do not really do tours.

If I were to just focus on stand-up, I could actually, paradoxically enough, be home way more, because I would leave on a Friday, go do a couple theaters Friday, Saturday, maybe Sunday, come home.

I do road gigs occasionally but I don't want to go out on the road for months at a time.

I didn't want to be on the road for 210-220 days per year. That was one of my first things when I started having conversations with Impact Wrestling.

You don't write songs, really, when you're on tour.

The fact that I tour religiously in the spring, religiously in the fall, and do 125 shows - you can set your watch to that. And you could have set your watch to that in 2000 or 1999, and you can set your watch to it in 2012.

Most years, I do 70 or 80 concerts.

I tour a lot, sometimes like a hundred shows a year.

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 do 100 shows a year, but I do it in fits and starts, as opposed to going on a long run.

I'm going to write, and after two years, when I've quit touring, if a special event comes up that I want to do, by all means I will do it, but as far as a structured tour goes, at the last date of 2014 goes, that will be it for touring.

I'm never going to retire and say, 'This is it. This is my last show.' I will not go on tour - I promised my wife and son no more than two weeks on the road.

It's good to be playing one and a half hour again. In the States we played like an hour and when you got onstage it felt like all of a sudden you are already done your set. But now, it feels like we are touring again.

A play is much easier to maintain your personal life with because if you're rehearsing, you're working like from 11 to 6 or 11 to 5 and you get to have your whole morning and your whole evening. When you're doing the play, you have all day.

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 do probably 60 concerts a year in the States. And I go out to clubs in the week. I'm doing new stuff all the time.

If Daryl stopped touring it would be a big part of him missing.

I still continue to do at least four concert tours a year, and in many cases, as many as six.

I think within what my job is, you always have to find a balance, because this job is also a life choice. You're traveling about; your hours are all over the place. If you're in a show, you're out every night.

The main thing is, I can't stay up late partying when I'm on tour. That's not good for my voice or my health in general.

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

I knew from a very young age that I wanted to be in that world. But I also understood that being a touring musician meant that you'd be gone a lot and that was going to make other things a lot harder, like having a family.

After leaving Queen, I decided to stop doing those mega-four-month tours. I go out for a month, and my dog recognizes me when I come home.