Barry Manilow Quotes

I'm not a wanderer, which is funny because I'm on tour half the time. I'm a home, hearth and family kind of person.

When you live on the road, going home is a place to escape and just be with your family to unwind.

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.

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

Going on the road for long stretches can seem daunting, and I certainly miss being home sometimes, but the chance to see so many different cities, let alone perform in them, is something I am really grateful for.

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

I've been touring for 25 years. I'm used to it, so I love it. Although I feel the tug of home, as I have three little kids, I don't suffer like some artists who constantly complain about how much they hate traveling.

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.

My first full year of touring, I did 300 days on the road. That was not including the travel time or publicity or anything else - that was just dates. I was home probably less than 50 days that year.

I like touring, I like being in the studio, a bit of both. I like to have a bit of time at home as well.

Having covered some half a hundred cities, towns, villages, and wide spots in the road during the last tow years, George and I fairly wallowed in the comfort of our own home base.

My touring has never stopped; from the time I started doing stand-up, I've been on the road.

I always make the joke that I go home, to one of my homes, to go and do laundry so I can go on the road again.

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.

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

Getting on the bus and touring was my life. And when that was not around, I felt myself a bit lost at times, because that was all I had.

My work in the House of Representatives, at this time in my life, is completed. It is time to return home.

I don't know if it's the way I've been brought up or if it's because I spend so much time away that I appreciate being at home so much.

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 don't know why comedians moan about touring; you get driven to a town, stay in a hotel, work for an hour and a half with nice people, and eat fatty service station food. There's nothing not to like.

Touring can be really tiring. I can get homesick, and I spend a lot of time on my phone.

I don't really like living in a very small space, like a tour bus, even though I have an amazing tour bus, and I've had multiple tour buses. It's still not a lot of room.

I travel all over the country, all over the world, and I'm happy to call Texas home.

I believe that intermittent live performance has cut short the writing lives of touring musicians.

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