Being on the road has about 2 1/2 hours a day that are really great, and that's when you're onstage. The other 21 1/2 hours are very boring... It becomes like a void, and we chose to fill it with all the wrong things.
We toured with Deep Purple a number of times.
I've been on the road since 1967.
I remember a tour where we played 50 cities in 56 days. We also went to Europe a couple of times.
We watch a load of films on the tour bus. We all watched Michael Jackson's 'This Is It', which was really amazing and it is a shame we will never get to see him perform live again.
Being on the road is like a campout. I'm the only girl. The guys in my band are like my big brothers. It's definitely an adventure, but it can be a nomadic lifestyle.
To be in a band on the road is to have anything and everything you want just by picking up the phone.
I had a jeep made up for Michael, and he would take it on tour, and he would hide behind it, like a curtain.
I'm quite tame as touring musicians go.
I don't really put cars in my videos because I'm always flying or on a tour bus.
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.
Living on the road can make you feel quite displaced. Cooking a meal on the tour bus for everyone makes it home.
I love the road. The closest thing to home, for me, is being on a tour bus, ironically.
I lived a fairly average, anonymous small-town life till I got the idea to do Nine Inch Nails. Then I locked myself in a studio for a year, and then got off the tour bus two years after that, and I didn't know who I'd turned into.
The two hours onstage is great. But I can only play a show and then take a night off. I have to sing for two hours, and then I've gotta rest it for a night. So it's the other 46 hours that are just boring as heck.
You never get tired of the buzz of touring.
Every job has its downside. For example, being in a band; the travel part of it - getting picked up from your house in a car, going to the airport, getting on a plane, going from the airplane to a van, then going from the van to a hotel.
I basically grew up on the road with my dad, on a tour bus every summer since I was a kid.
Performing on stage is addictive. The adrenaline rush is exhilarating. When I stop touring for a couple weeks, I get antsy.
Touring is very tough.
My second album was written while I was on the road promoting the first record. I tried to take my personal experiences and elevate them to universal experiences, so that I wasn't writing songs about living on a tour bus or being on a TV set for the first time.
I spent my life on the road touring, and a lot of the songs are written in tour buses and hotel rooms.
I wish I could tell you me and my rock band were traveling around, strung out. No, we were a family band. Straight Partridge Family.
I love being on the road, I love playing.
No matter what, your parents are going to worry about you. I had a tour bus, and my mother still thought I was broke. Remember: It's your life, not theirs. Just because your parents sent you to college doesn't mean they bought the rest of your life.
