Ace Young Quotes

I toured for 13 years, and it was very lonely, and it was hard work.

My life used to be record, tour, record, tour. You can never say no as a freelance musician. I was on the road 200 days a year.

During the holiday season, Christmas specifically, it can be hard to be away from family and friends.

I know I'm really lucky to do what I do, but sometimes with the hours and the travelling, I don't get to see my family and friends as much as I'd like. It can be lonely on the road. Sometimes I come offstage after a massive adrenaline rush, and then when I go to an empty hotel room on my own, it can be an anti-climax.

I tour all year, 42 weeks a year, so it's hard for me to remember every place I play.

Spending so much time on the road is the biggest challenge for me with WWE. I've missed weddings and births. I've spent a lot of time away from my friends and family for so many years. That part is really hard.

I definitely think that touring is a really crazy lifestyle and makes it hard to live a normal life and have relationships and friendships.

We tour, we do the distance from friends and family, not really knowing how to connect with people on the same level. I've understood now, as much as we tour, we live day-to-day, so our lives are much different than the people who stay at home and go home every night.

The hardest part about touring is being away from family and friends. When you're gone for a long time, it's especially hard for me to remember to keep in touch with certain people because there's so much going on on the road.

Six months away from family and friends is a long time. Emotionally, you go through some ups and downs. Life changes on the ground, and you have to ready for that. Life changes for you up here as well.

Since I was 15, I have not spent a Christmas or a New Year with my family.

It's lonely being stuck in a hotel in London for two nights. Even a couple of nights away from the children is awful.

When you're on the road, you sort of go crazy and being away from your family you get stir-crazy and lonely, so I try to keep myself involved as much as possible.

I pretty much live on my tour bus.I do well around 300 shows a year. A lot of times I will do two shows a night.

I only tour in short bursts, I'm only ever away from my family and three daughters for a month or two.

That's been hard being away from the family, because Washington can be lonely. When you tune out of all the activity, that's like, you're alone.

My mother isolated herself from all family and friends for some 20 years. And never met her grandchild, my son.

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.

I had family and friends back home. Just because I could potentially feel alone in Los Angeles, that didn't mean I was alone.

I just feel like it gets harder and harder every year with Ace getting older and time away from my husband and even family events such as birthdays and friends' weddings and things that I've always just missed out on because of softball.

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 feel guilty about spending so much time away from home and loved ones.

People see you onstage and the glamorous side, but they don't see you traveling 600 miles a night, eating truck stop food and spending by yourself staring at walls.