Life on the Road Quotes

Touring the world was almost like a side project that got out of control. It's like two incredibly demanding full-time jobs that I'm trying to do at once.

I first went on the road with the Rolling Stones in the year of our Lord, 1969. But my grandfather gave me away to a drummer when I was 15 years old.

I'm 30, and I've been touring since I was 15. So it's been a long journey to get here.

I've forgotten what it feels like to be in one place for more than a day... But we signed up for this. This is our dream. We sat down and said this is what we want to do, play music and touring.

I can be an artist a posteriori, not a priori. If my pictures tell the story, our story, human story, then in a hundred years, then they can be considered an art reference, but now they are not made as art. I'm a journalist. My life's on the road, my studio is the planet.

I've been on my own and traveling for years now.

Long-term, perpetual travel is the dream of many. But surprisingly, for such a popular desire, few people realize how accessible it is.

I've been on the road since 1983. Nothing ever changed, even when I was doing TV and movies.

No yesterdays on the road.

I was pretty scared of the idea as a younger person of being a musician on the road. It didn't occur to me as a possibility.

I laughed at Willie Nelson, wondering why he spends all his life on that tour bus. And I look at myself, and I'm sitting in airplanes half the time.

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.

Make no mistake about it: when you're on the road Friday, Saturday, Sunday, Monday, Tuesday - on the road 300 days a year - you have to be a certain type of person.

In the day-to-day life of a traveling musician, it's easy to miss so many details. The world goes by at high-speed; it will take your breath away.

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

I think, as an actor, you're always traveling. There's a sense of dislocation sometimes from home.

I got rid of my place in L.A. I had this beautiful condo in Taluca Lake, but I was like, 'Why am I paying for this when I'm all over?'

I hope my desire to travel so much isn't forever because it's not the most conducive lifestyle for a relationship or a family by any means.

A lot of the world turns into checklists for me when I'm on the road. Like, OK, this person's alive, this person's fed, this person's good. Soundcheck is done. Everything becomes a checklist except for the actual show.

I would like to spend the whole of my life traveling, if I could anywhere borrow another life to spend at home.

Being on tour is like being in limbo. It's like going from nowhere to nowhere.

I've been on the road for so long that it's a part of my being. Even after all these years, I love playing. I love recording. I love writing. I love rehearsing. I love touring. I love all that stuff.

I find myself more affected by music the more I do it. Particularly when you're touring, and you're in the bus, and you're listening to loads of music. Life becomes far more dramatic, I guess - you're never in the same place; you're constantly meeting new people. You almost become more sensitized to music.

I've been on the road for fifteen years and I had no intent to stop.

I dropped out of college and started gigging around Brighton.