Pat Smear Quotes

I've been traveling around to play music since before I even had a driver's license.

I love going on tour and playing music for people.

I think going on tour, having lots of songs and music videos would be super cool.

I wasn't sure what to expect when I toured with Danny from The Script, but he is so nice.

The 'Daryl's House' thing has made me into a live musician even more than I ever was, and even in the way I record.

Playing show after show is like my bread and butter.

The thought of going on tour with people like Toyah Wilcox is just appalling. I'm certainly not tempted.

The first job I ever had was singing in a jazz club when I was like 15 with my friend, and we earned like 70 bucks. We were like, 'Oh my God!'

For me to call myself a musician, it's necessary to play live, and it rewards so much - not just in the pay cheque sense but what it does for my playing. I feel it through a tour - I feel it at the end of a tour - all that I've gathered, and especially now that I am improvising so much.

As my wife says, I'll never fully retire, but it'll start to slow down. I'll continue to do the local gigs or go to Las Vegas. But I won't be going out to Ohio to play an Indian casino anymore. Those will probably go by the wayside.

Basically, I live to do gigs.

If Chance the Rapper was on tour in L.A., I would try and play with him. I love him.

I'm most in my element on tour, with a gig that day, like today. I'm on the road where I am supposed to be. I will be where I'm supposed to be at nighttime, on stage, in front of people, doing my thing.

The hour and a half I'm on stage is my favourite part of the day when I'm on tour because the only part I really love is the interaction with the audience.

I still enjoy the heck out of getting up there to play shows every night.

I love being on tour. That's the best job in the world, if only I had a different body.

I think my biggest achievement is still going out on the road and wanting to make music on the road. It doesn't matter to me that I am still travelling around because I just love everything about it, I love the lifestyle, and I love being on stage.

Playing live and making a living from music was always the only goal.

Lorde is awesome. She's amazing. She's so talented. We went on tour in Europe, and it was the greatest time of my life.

When touring I get to travel around with my best friends, do a show I love and I'm confident people will enjoy, and have all the adrenalin that comes with performing.

As you're touring there are so many layers to a live show, it has always been important for me to have a guitar that I can use live and in the studio.

The Heartbreakers were what you imagine being in a band would be like - best buddies and great players and guys who took it all really seriously.

I do a few shows every year, but I'm mostly at home, making music. Day and night.

When my father was, you know, a very big artist in the 1970s and then later up through the '80s. And then I began playing guitar with him in the road in the late '80s until he retired in 1997. So I traveled the world with them for years, you know, and all around the world and got to meet some great people.

Every band wants to play in every city. We all do.