Brock Lesnar Quotes

I don't think I ever had a certain image of what touring was like... I think when you're young, you think it's very glamourous, but it's not.

This game wears on you. It tears you down. It's perpetual motion for some people who've achieved a level of independence, like Madonna and Jay-Z - they don't need to do music anymore. But there's people who need it. And in that need, that's when it's tough and it tears you to pieces.

My whole life was writing, recording and touring over and over again. At some point I realised I wasn't enjoying myself any more.

I don't like touring and it seemed to be getting on top of me in a big way.

I did the rock 'n roll-pop cliche of getting burnt out. I'm not the first person that happened to, and I'm sure I won't be the last.

It's funny to think that at 22 years old, I was really burned out from being on the road for 10 years.

I guess I found the life as a musician too counterproductive, as so much time was spent in tour buses & remote hotel rooms. As I am moderately hyperactive, this didn't suit my temper.

I hear a lot of artists become kinda self-referential, and a lot of people that tour a lot tend to write about the perils of being on the road later in their careers.

When you record and tour year after year without a break, it starts to feel like you're on an assembly line.

I believe that intermittent live performance has cut short the writing lives of touring musicians.

When I started doing music full time, I figured out my job wasn't something I needed to be completely sober for.

Playing shows is really fun. And writing music is really fun. But going on tour for a year is one of the more soul-crushing experiences you can have as a creative person.

Clever gimmicks of mass distraction yield a cheap soulcraft of addicted and self-medicated narcissists.

I get really tired of hearing of all these old rockers whine and complain about how hard life on the road can be. Just stop if you don't like it. I don't think of it as work. I love it all.

We were so busy that right before we recorded the follow-up single to 'Lovin' Feelin' I had a nervous breakdown. I just folded. I had to stay in bed for a couple of months and rest.

I am a touring artist - I get a kick out of it, like, a huge kick.

Do I love the road? Honestly? No - but it's how I earn my living. I also don't have the blues, like it's some kind of fever. The blues is my job. It's what I do.

It is like an addiction: I get addicted to performing and touring. I get itchy and think, 'I've got to do this.'

People get messed up because they have a million guys they have to take care of. I don't have that.

A guy wrote a blog, way back when the Internet first started; the comments were so negative that it actually stopped me doing music for some time - about two, three years. It was after this one hip-hop project - Redfoo and Dr'Kroon. I wasn't used to it. I didn't like it. It lowered my self-esteem.

I'm constantly writing, maybe a little more than other guys in the band. I find it a very therapeutic thing to do on the road, where you're estranged from your hobbies.

Hydroxycut keeps me going while on tour. It's a grind on the road, and I'm excited to be joining the team.

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.

When you're a touring musician, you're always turning over new rocks, and there's always a certain level of tension in your life. The music business, and the travel that comes with it, is stressful, challenging, redundant, exhausting, exciting, and often very depressing.

I feel like I've paid a really heavy cost, a really heavy physical health cost, for the years of touring and how physical I've been onstage.