When you tour, you regain the music and the connection with the audience.
We've played everywhere since I started The Licks. We've played arenas, clubs, school cafeterias and bowling alleys. It doesn't matter where the venue is; we're gonna bring you the rock!
Traveling is a part of the business. I think it's really the hardest part of the business because the wrestling part is the easy part - something I love and enjoy doing.
I'm quite tame as touring musicians go.
In a sense, touring is crazy. You go city to city playing the show over and over again. But there's something magic about being in front of people, so it's not like going through the motions every night. It's a different experience.
In France, for instance, one magazine writer was convinced that On The Road had been a huge influence on Lost Souls and was crushed to learn that I hadn't read the one until after I'd written the other.
My brain is very fantastical. If I ever actually recorded myself, I could probably win a Grammy for sex talk. Being on the road while in relationships, you need to learn to pleasure one another.
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.
My schedule is such that even though I visit several cities for performances, I hardly get the time to explore any of them.
I tour more than I need to, more than is good for you. But it's my favorite part of music. I much prefer it to studio work.
You never get tired of the buzz of touring.
I spent my life on the road touring, and a lot of the songs are written in tour buses and hotel rooms.
I read On the Road in maybe 1959. It changed my life like it changed everyone else's.
Whereas for me, touring tends to be a very strange and isolating experience.
The beat generation is a coffeehouse full of people expectantly looking at their watches waiting for the beat generation to come on.
We've been touring ever since we were able to afford to buy a van, and I don't think we'll ever stop until something falls off or is irreparable.
I've been travelling all my life.
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.
I tour a lot, sometimes like a hundred shows a year.
If things are crazy in the studio, usually the road is times 10.
Things got big quickly for us, and playing arenas... it's like - and every band will tell you this - you don't see any of the town.
Kerouac was this kid who exemplified something happening.
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 constantly tour, even when I don't have a record out.
I've dreamed of being on the road, traveling and touring, for as long as I've been into doing music. It's what I live for. I just wanna be Willie Nelson.
