Trey Anastasio Quotes

Not a lot of bands get to go out on their own terms.

I would hate to go out as a legend on tour just playing all the back hits.

I truly felt that was going to be my last tour. So here we are again and I'm saying this will probably be my last tour. That's truly the way I'm looking at it.

We were with Frank as part of his very last tour.

We'll see if we ever do another Ministry gig again or not. I'm not saying yes or no yet. All I'm saying is I know there's no new Ministry studio CDs coming ever again. I promise.

I have never wanted to give up performing on stage, but one day the tours will be over.

It's just kind of known in the music industry that a farewell tour means 'for now.'

I'm retiring the Mos Def name after 2011. I'm actually doing it.

When I retired from my music November 1997, it had been 37 years.

You can't do something forever.

My Chemical Romance is done. But it can never die.

I’ve made the decision to get off the stage.

The 2018 tour is supposed to be a farewell tour. But you take farewell tours one at a time.

I didn't want to have to follow 'Everybody Loves Raymond' with another sitcom. Let it be my sitcom legacy, and leave it at that.

It's been a great run. I've done everything I can do announcing wise.

I don't want to play forever. I want to give everything I can now and then walk away knowing I gave everything. The example I think of is Barry Sanders. He was such a great player, and he left when he was still on top. I want that to be me.

There's no future for New Order.

I want to go out in dramatic fashion. Win, lose, or draw, I want to have a retirement match, and a lot of guys have done it.

When 'The Warrior' came out, Scandal was no more.

Abba's last tour was a success but awful for me.

I love a happy ending. They are so rare.

Today's imaginary band name: The Significan't.

For us, there's an inherent process when you're ending something to be thinking about the beginning, as writers.

I am really proud to HAVE been an Arsenal player.

I have a fan-base that apparently like you know, people...it's not that they look up to but you have certain figures that, you know, you'd like to be more like and people really love Bella and I do too but I'm not her...I don't think anybody expects me to try to just for the rest of my career appease an audience that once liked "Twilight", you know what I mean?