Dean Ween Quotes

When you give your life over to your touring schedule, it's so grueling, you have to have moments where you have your own comfort places.

I felt pressured by continuous touring.

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

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.

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.

Being in Pentatonix, we basically toured year round, so it was tough to just get a break.

There is ways and means to vent, and sometimes they can be the wrong ways.

I'm quite tame as touring musicians go.

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.

I know some people say, 'You must have life balance.' I don't have that.

As I get older, I think about the quality of my life and a balanced way to enjoy that. That's true wellness - being well from inside out.

I guess I found the life as a musician too counterproductive, as so much time was spent in tour buses & remote hotel rooms. As I am moderately hyperactive, this didn't suit my temper.

I feel like I've paid a really heavy cost, a really heavy physical health cost, for the years of touring and how physical I've been onstage.

I want to stay active. I want to find that mind-body connection every single day, and I want other people to have that because we spend our lives on our phones, at our desks. We're not thinking about our bodies and the mental connections we should be having, and those moments help us push through to live our best life.

I've stopped many things such as healthy eating. What's the point? In this post-truth era, I feel increasingly powerless.

If somebody needed a guitar player for a tour and I was free and it was the right situation, I'd do it and it would be good fun. There would be much less pressure if I just had to stand there and play leads.

My life used to be record, tour, record, tour. You can never say no as a freelance musician. I was on the road 200 days a year.

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.

When you're on tour, you really don't get to hang out with and spend the holidays with your family and friends. And there isn't usually much of a break in between performance dates.

Mostly I've just been stealing little moments for myself in order to write - in the bathroom at a hotel, or just slipping away for a half an hour. Amidst all of the touring, life has been happening.

Unfiltered venting to a friend about difficult situations can be helpful. But it can work against you if your life turns into complaining.

I always say: a run in the morning is like eating a fruit a day - it chases he doctor away. It is good for your mind.

If you spend too much time in L.A., you might start to lose a sense of what's normal.

I run skills-building programs focused on healthy risk taking, failure resilience, and self-care for undergraduates around the country.

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