I know it is possible to win the Tour without taking anything.
People were always asking me who I wanted to tour with, and I always said Jason Aldean or Brad Paisley.
When Josh and I are recording a record, we’re very mindful of how the music will manifest itself live. That’s where we have to live every day. When we tour for the next record, I imagine there will be a new story to tell, and we’ll introduce new characters.
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.
I had other coaches when I was younger but my father was there, following all my training. He has seen as much tennis as many coaches on tour.
I’m not saying that I won’t tour again, but the chances are slim because my priorities are different now.
The thought of going on tour with people like Toyah Wilcox is just appalling. I’m certainly not tempted.
You never know how you’re going to be received, after all this time. The initial response we had was just overwhelming, particularly that tour of the States.
I am working as public relations director for the Tour de France and maintaining my farm.
I have the time needed to support the album and tour.
I made my Broadway debut in the revival of Hair and followed it up with the bus and truck tour of Grease.
Oh yeah, our first tour in Europe they wouldn’t give me the time off from work.
Just about every player on tour has a bad back. It’s just one of those games that does mess you up a little bit. You’ve got to keep looking after it.
I was kind of an outcast in school ’cause I always kept to myself and was writing poetry and then going on tour with my brother band all the time, so kids didn’t know what to make of me.
I’m not sure whether I’ve been happy. After my last book tour, I sat on my balcony with a cup of tea. I thought: ‘You can’t rewind the movie. I’ve spent more than half my life in the Middle East. There have been great moments of horror and depression and loneliness.’
The Telephone Tour with Noname was a beautiful experience. Because this was only my second tour, I was not quite prepared for the small details that touring entails. I quickly realized how imperative it is to to sleep, eat healthily, and rest my voice.
I love decompressing with friends. Sometimes when a tour is long, I’ll fly friends over for the last part of the tour. I love to bring family with me, and spending time with them and my family is really the way to decompress.
Obviously, signing on with Puma right when I turned pro, it’s been a great fit for me to show off my colorful lifestyle as far as where I grew up and how I grew up, growing up on a public driving range and growing up around action sports my whole life. Not exactly the normal road that guys take to get to the PGA Tour.
We have such a high drop-out rate from musicians, said the head of the college. He was right – I dropped out before I even dropped in. Months later they were still asking what had happened to me, not realising that I was on a UK tour.
I want to be best golfer in the world. But I feel like golf is not everything in my life, but I want to keep doing it, keep working hard, do the best I can on the tour and give back to the tour.
My first tour I was on the road for 18 months. You’re just out there promoting.
When we can figure out a way to really tour and make a profit, then we’ll do it again.
I started as a fairy on the ‘Dorothy the Dinosaur Show.’ That was mainly just a national tour that featured Dorothy the Dinosaur.
I was on tour with Little Dragon with the Gorillaz. She’s got an amazing voice and is a lovely girl. Her vibe is fresh pressed and harmless fun with a tinge of the dark side if you look in the right bits of the tunes.
Have you ever stayed at the Four Seasons Hotel in Mumbai? I’d warmly recommend it. It’s super luxurious, and right next door, there’s a classic slum. So you can do a quick slum tour and get back to your sanctuary without any inconvenience but with some excellent snaps.
That’s what PGA Tour golf is all about. It’s a partnership with the community to help people to raise money for charity and to do it using golf as a platform.
You were cool if you had on a pair of Air Force 1s. It’s still a staple for me while on tour.
After 12 intense years of rock music, I was happy to get away from making a record and going out on a tour. When I did it, I wanted to feel inspired. After a while I finally had my fill working on other people’s music, and I started coming up with music on my own and said, ‘This could be for me.’
When you are on tour in the UK it takes a few hours to get anywhere. A lot of the time you can have a beer, close your eyes for two minutes, and then you are there. In the U.S. it is much more like a road trip as all the cities are so spread apart.
When there are no women on the tour it can get awful and ugly – constant horrible jokes and gross behaviour. It needs to be leavened with a feminine presence.
Every now and then, Prince decides to try being a normal rock star. You know, the kind who does a professional arena tour where he plays the hits. But part of what makes him such an eternally fascinating star is that he lives in his own private purple world, even when he sets out to make the house quake.
If you had told me in 1997 that even 5 people would be waiting online for me to sign my new book in 2009, I would have jumped around like Joe Carter in the 1993 World Series. I love it. I can’t imagine why anyone wouldn’t like it. The only thing I worry about is carpal tunnel syndrome – my last tour almost caused it.
I tell my staff, we’re riding a tour bus around, and we’re going to stop and look at some weird stuff – but we’re taking our viewers around safely. They’re just looking out the window at it. I’m trying to create a sense of comfort for my center audience.
On my US tour maybe three out of 30 shows there was an Elvis impersonator in the crowd but that’s it. I usually get younger fans, and those that come that are of an older generation end up walking out because it’s too loud.
A lot of writing I do on tour. I do a lot on airplanes. At home, I write a lot, obviously. When I write a song, what I usually do is work the lyric out first from some basic idea that I had, and then I get an acoustic guitar and I sit by the tape recorder and I try to bang it out as it comes.
Whenever I’m on a book tour, one of the questions I always get asked is what to wear to various occasions.
I tour alone. There’s no sound check, no back up. I stay with the hosts; I am in a family home and it’s really nourishing. I just have to remember after the show not to run out into the living room in my pyjamas. Every day, it’s a new relationship being built. It’s odd and wonderful.
There’s a lot of things that go on when you’re on tour that cannot be controlled. I’m not even talking about myself, but of course there’s sexual activity and drugs, fighting and language; it is certainly not a place to raise a family.
When I was a teenager, my biggest lessons came from Kenny Chesney, Tim McGraw, George Strait, Rascal Flatts and Brad Paisley. I learned so much from opening up for those artists, and it also taught me how to treat your opening acts and make them feel like they’re part of a family, not just a tour.
If I could, I would have my son on tour the whole time. But he has school, summer camp, and he has to see his mother.
I hate to say it… but, yeah, I mean, our class has always been really strong, and I always joke with my buddies saying it’s not cool to be 23 and on the PGA Tour anymore since everyone that’s been 22, 23, 24, they’re all winning.
I like to challenge myself. There are not many guys on tour who can give me a challenge in Ping-Pong. So I’ll throw some points to see if I can come back.
You can’t enter the Olympics unless you do your routine to get in shape for it. The idea of going out on stage on a tour without having prepped for it would be suicide, literally.
I’m into classic games like Donkey Kong, and also collect vintage tour t-shirts – everything from Olivia Newton-John to Duran Duran. I’ve got a Chicago one worth $100.
Having big audiences when you’re on a book tour is like Valhalla if you’re a person who used to sell Girl Scout cookies on the side. Because you want to give the reading that will sell the most books.
I said at the start of the race that the Tour is about being good for 21 days, being consistent every day, not having super days and bad days.
I had redesigned my entire amplifier system for this tour because airlines are very strict now.
I had a blast on tour with Little Big Town. We got to play some beautiful rooms around the country – some really amazing old theaters. And it was just cool to see a band that’s been together for so long.
If you don’t tour, you cannot expect to sell a huge numbers of your albums either. It was both a business – and an economical decision and we wanted to play anyway. We just wanted to get out for the tour when it was safe enough for us.
I was born and grew up in Phoenix, and I left there when I was 17 to go to Interlochen Arts Academy – a boarding school in Michigan – for a year, and then I went to college for a year at The Boston Conservatory and landed the ‘Spring Awakening’ tour midway through my freshman year, which was pretty cool.
I tour a lot and interview a lot. I’m on the Internet and doing stuff. I go out and promote. I’ve got a bass drum and a sandwich sign and a washboard. You just have to shout louder and louder that you’re still alive.
