Cindy Wilson Quotes

Touring is a tough plane to get off the ground, and it takes a lot of hard work and a lot of investments.

It's very hard to tour.

I've been on big tours ever since I started, but you can't just go out there and headline, you have to do it right.

The reason I don't tour is that I don't know how to front a band. What would I do? I can't really play anything well enough to deal with that situation.

You can't get a good crew and a good sound system, and a good light system if you do a small tour. If you want the best, those guys want a commitment of about 4 to 6 months. And I'd want the best people and the best stuff.

When we can figure out a way to really tour and make a profit, then we'll do it again.

I'm not one for Sudoku or crosswords - the thing that fires my little brain is doing tour budgets.

I'd like to tour, but again, to tour my music now would take a bigger band.

If you're doing 70 gigs in a tour, there's a lot of responsibility. People need a big night out, and you're providing it.

I mean, it takes a large entourage to put on a tour. You can't have 'em sittin' around.

So if you're on tour for eight months, a year... or whatever it is you definitely don't want arguments and I'm happy to say that I've always had a really nice bunch of people around me all the time.

But for me, I thought you made a record, you got on a bus, went out and played your shows and made a lot of money. That was the way it was supposed to go down. But there's a lot more to it than that. There are a lot of early mornings, late nights, a lot of traveling, a lot of being away from home, being away from your family.

I'm open to getting more equipment, but I really won't have time to look into that until after the tour.

I think in 2016 I'm going to focus on performing a lot more and doing as many shows as I can. There's plans to tour more, and that's where my heart is - doing the live shows.

It's pretty scripted on the road: very organised and compartmentalised, and that's the way it has to be with so many people involved in a Stones tour.

You open up a lot of tours making nothing just for the fact that you need to start somewhere and get some exposure. When you start to headline your tours, all the money is in headlining, but there's no money in headlining small rooms.

It's always hard to find groups who can tour with The Prodigy.

To be very honest, my reason for getting away from 'Pepsi Battle of the Bands' was because I was on tour. I wanted to be on tour, and the amount I was asking for, they said that they couldn't pay it.

It is not very practical in today's world when you tour all over the place having a big band.

Once you've been on tour six, seven years, you get an idea of what works and what doesn't work universally. There will be some crowds that we just can't play a song, but we've got 90% of a show that we know is going to be a hit with the Lupe Fiasco fan. I think the catering has already been done.

There seems to be an inclination among rock musicians to be very carefree with money, but I negotiate the best flight and hotel deals on our tours to maximise the band's income - I don't want too see too much taken off the top line.

I want to write my own music, and I want to tour.

Touring is a whole other animal for me and a whole other skill. But I'm having a lot of fun figuring all that out and switching it from internal to external and putting on a show.

I'm doing a lot of touring and things have been really busy for me.

I remember a tour where we played 50 cities in 56 days. We also went to Europe a couple of times.