Fred Schneider Quotes

Being on the road is like a campout. I'm the only girl. The guys in my band are like my big brothers. It's definitely an adventure, but it can be a nomadic lifestyle.

I don't write on tour. There is so much to do day in and day out when you are on the road.

I wish I could tell you me and my rock band were traveling around, strung out. No, we were a family band. Straight Partridge Family.

I love being on the road, I love playing.

We did like 12 shows, then we did the entire Ozzfest with the first half completely booked; then we did the second half with a couple days off here and there.

When Ozzy calls and asks you to go on tour, you say, 'When do I start?'

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

Bonnie Raitt and Lynyrd Skynyrd were two people I went on the road with.

I can't wait to get out on the road with Michael McDonald and his band. There is some deep history between us, and it's always a great hang.

We formed the band because we wanted to tour. That was our common interest.

We've sung to prerecorded tracks and things like that, but we've never done a proper world tour with a band and everything.

Girls Aloud is not just us five, there's like us five plus a ridiculous team of 50 who travel with us, it's amazing.

Korn is great friends of ours, so to be on tour with friends is usually our number one. We've been very blessed to meet a lot of great bands, successful bands, that we can go tour with.

We toured with Deep Purple a number of times.

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

I was in a band called the SteelDrivers, and we just played hard in vans, hopping on airplanes, not knowing where you're at.

I constantly tour, even when I don't have a record out.

I love being on tour and having my own tour bus.

We came off the road of the last tour very inspired to just keep playing, so we went to Canada.

Yeah, about sixteen to twenty weeks a year. For example, we can do America in six or seven weeks. You can do Europe in three weeks; England in two weeks. South America you could do in three weeks; Asia you could do in three weeks.

I've been on the road since 1967.

On a serious level, I wouldn't tell the press if I was in a relationship or not. I wouldn't ever reveal that, because it takes you down a certain road... I have no desire to be courting the press with my love life.

I was with a folk trio back in '63 and '64, and we traveled all across North Africa, Israel, and Europe.

It was a nightmare. The band had to tour Greenland by bus.

I spent well over a year on the road with Sarah Vaughn. That was amazing.