Kerry King Quotes

I've been touring through Texas since I was 15, on my first tour ever.

Touring is very tough.

My first tour I was on the road for 18 months. You're just out there promoting.

Being on tour really takes a toll, so you have to find ways to stay healthy.

For us as entertainers traveling, the schedule gets really crazy - flying all the time, being on a bus tour, changing hotels every day. And it's challenging.

Every job has its downside. For example, being in a band; the travel part of it - getting picked up from your house in a car, going to the airport, getting on a plane, going from the airplane to a van, then going from the van to a hotel.

Travel is stressful.

There's parts of touring I like. I like the actual performance part, but the bit when you're in the airport waiting at the carousel for your bags to come around, I don't like that a bit.

I went through a period of being disillusioned with touring.

We got in after a ten hour drive after sleeping for four hours. I'm not complaining here. I'm really not complaining. Ten hour drive to get here, we unload, we sound check, we get here we take photos, we do this. I haven't eaten anything today. It's like... And I'm not even hungry.

I want to get my music out there. I enjoy playing shows; I just don't enjoy airports. I want to be more creative, but it's hard to get into that zone on tour.

But I don't want to do no big tours or go out on the road.

You know, being an entertainer is partly being on the road, and a lot of your songs come from the road.

I mean, what's great about touring is that's what you do. You're in a constant state of motion and then you stop to do a show and you move onto the next city. All you have to do is do the show. That's the only responsibility that you have.

We play a long show, and you can't beat yourself up too much over it, as physically you just kill yourself. It was always good fun on the road and it still is.

When you arrive at your destination, pay absolutely no attention to the thing people call jetlag.

I just completed a tour in Europe. I played every night. This requires traveling some days for six hours in a van or a train or a car. After six weeks of that, I checked into the hotel and just fell apart.

A lot of '2112' was written in the back seat of a car and in cold dressing rooms while on tour in northern Ontario.

I love to perform. But I don't like the traveling.

I have to say that when you tour the world, obviously, the jetlags and different hours and ways of living and traveling, a lot of hours in the plane, and you wake up in the morning and you're not quite sure where you are, and it is very tiring.

Traveling these days has a lot of problems and also it wears you out more.

I think travel is probably the downside of playing professional golf, but you've got to do it.

You have to spend a lot more time on the road these days if you want to make a living with music.

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.

After two world tours where we played every state but Greenland, I only saw the inside of a hotel. I wouldn't have missed it for the world, but it did get tiring.