Christine McVie Quotes

I always loved touring in Pentatonix; really the only reason it was tough was the pace and no breaks.

Being in a band can be really toxic to being in a relationship, considering all the touring and everything. Sometimes when you're on tour, it feels like you're living the same day over and over again.

Touring can be tough; the crew and I travel everywhere by a big pink bus, and live in petrol stations.

A lot of bands whine about the road and how tough it is.

A touring band is a family and a workplace at the same time, and you're living with people you didn't necessarily choose every day for up to a year.

I think bands, when they're on the road, they keep their sanity by developing an internal sense of humor.

I think it's important for bands to rough it. Whether you're in a van or a bus, it's still tough. You still have to stand in a two hour catering line with flies everywhere in the heat, and you still have to lug your gear.

As you get up in your thirties, the van touring is not a possibility anymore. We can't all be Mike Watt.

One of the things about Fleetwood Mac is, when we're not together, we don't talk a lot or keep in touch. We keep a healthy distance.

I really loved touring with my band, but it felt like we would spend a lot of time playing in empty rooms - empty clubs. We had some good successes, but it's so physically hard to load up a van and drive all day.

You spend more time with your fellow band members than your girlfriend or wife, and you end up at each other's throats. It happens to all bands.

Grupo Limite is always going to be a major highlight of my life. We worked so hard, sometimes touring for 10 months at a time.

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.

Ninety percent of touring is a logistical maneuver, moving your body and everyone else's from one city to the next. You're like a piece of gear. Then you jump out of the box, get onstage, and play. That sounds cynical, but it sucks to move around so much.

I don't really work on songs when we're touring because there's just too much other stuff going on.

I like performing, but I usually get really sick when I'm on tour, and it's just hard.

'Easy' is not a word I would ever use to describe touring.

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

The Strokes, you bond when you're 18, and you're friends. The feeling's different. When all of us get into a room, we feel like the same people from before. We weren't anybody; we were just hanging out. It's hard to understand if you're not in a band. You're one-fifth.

It's a really bad idea to be in a band and get involved with each other.

I'm a full member of Cheap Trick in all respects. Solely as an accommodation to some of the band members, I reluctantly agreed to take a temporary hiatus from touring.

Touring, and being in a band, it's almost like the other stuff, the other parts of life, get put on hold.

For 10 years, I had a band called Steel Train. We made three albums. We toured like crazy.

You could say that Fleetwood Mac is a bit of a dysfunctional family, but we are a family.

When you're in a band, you spend most of your time in a van. Like, there were four of us, we toured all the time, and you're stuck looking at three other people for a month straight. And all of those times, we all just liked making fun of people, doing impressions of people, coming up with songs.