I design all my sets. With my tour and my album artwork, I co-design that with people who are better at drawing than me. But I’ve got a good imagination. I went to art school so I understand how to communicate my ideas.
If they think they have issues with the president not doing enough for the poor now, wait and see what happens if the opposition takes office. Then they would really need a poverty tour.
My first years on tour, I tried to be super professional by considering the yardages to every feature and hazard. Over time my caddie and I noticed I play better when we keep it simple. Think about the distance you want the ball to fly, and only that number.
On our American tour bus, the bunks are a bit taller so that we don’t bash our heads. On the English bus, we bash our heads every morning. It’s not the best thing to do first thing when you wake up.
I went on tour in the play H.M.S. Pinafore.
Rebellion is what you make of it. When you’ve been on a tour bus for two months straight, and then you get in your car and drive wherever you want, that can feel rebellious.
That whole lifestyle – make a record, do a tour: I know how to do that. It doesn’t interest me.
The main thing is, I can’t stay up late partying when I’m on tour. That’s not good for my voice or my health in general.
We have two tractor-trailer rigs on the Tour. One is a therapy truck, and one is a workout truck. If everything is going well, you’re walking in the workout truck, and when things aren’t going well, you’re walking in the therapy truck.
My dream tour would be like, me, Cole, Drake, Sean, Meek. I think that would be dope, something like that; big venues.
My first press tour for ‘Vikings’ was pretty overwhelming. Between all the hotels, TV shows and talking a lot, I would get done and have to sit in silence for a while. It was exhausting, and you really have to focus.
The difference between the American version of ‘Live Aid’ and the British one – in England, if you wanted a cup of tea, you made it yourself. If you wanted a sandwich, you bought it. In typical American style, at the American concert, there were laminated tour passes and champagne and caviar.
The fact that I have the chance to learn from the names I’ve been on tour with, I don’t think you can ask for any more than that.
High school and college were my punk, formative years. I was playing hardcore, learning to be a musician. In bands, you tour, but you’re paid nothing; you’re playing to 50 people in a basement, sleeping in a van, and you love it.
The best memories on tour are always of kids who tell me they are going to run back to their classrooms and start writing!
I have a following. Whenever I am on tour they come. It is always sold out.
I really fell in love with the art of making clothes when I was dancing on tour. Creating my stage image through clothes was a blast. I discovered a total sense for what cool chicks and rockin’ dudes like to wear. Total Skull is for those people. People that like to rock – total rock.
I’m in the middle of a 25-city book tour, and I like watching what people buy in bookstores. I see people buy books that I strongly suspect they will never read, and as an author, I must tell you, I don’t mind this one bit. We buy books aspirationally.
The gossip mill on tour is always turning. I have to be a little careful about what I tell guys who I don’t consider close friends, because even though they might not spread it to other players, they’ll usually tell their wives. And once the wives get it, it’s gone.
As the White House doors are slammed in the face of the average American, I want to know if they will still swing wide open for Hollywood and the liberal elite. Will Jay-Z and Beyonce still get to stop by for a tour, or will they be denied like those who aren’t rich and famous?
I have always thought, the secret purpose of the book tour is to make the writer hate the book he’s written. And, as a result, drive him to write another book.
My brothers were gone on tour a lot, and I would miss them so much.
I do remember the tour of ‘Cats’ in Philadelphia. I was 12 and had a stomach bug.
Comedians do movies and TV so that when they tour, they sell out. That’s the goal: To get popular enough so the place is packed.
About two months ago I finished a gospel tour.
Toting around a full orchestra on tour is very ambitious. I would consider doing a show now and then, like do a show at Radio City or Carnegie Hall with a full orchestra.
Fame for me is like a place, a country I’m taking a tour through.
My first-ever date on my first tour, the sound completely cut out. So I had to go on and just shout loudly to the audience.
The ‘Ponyboy’ single is coming out next because it’s the other bit of the pole of the record. Sort of everything I’m interested in happens on that axis – everything I’m interested in this material happens on that axis, and so I was really excited to tour ‘It’s Okay to Cry’ and ‘Ponyboy.’
Florida has been really cool to us. This is our first big club tour, and Pennywise has been really nice.
The book I made it big with in the U.S. was my fourth book, ‘Sanctum.’ My novels sell really well both there and in Canada, so once a year I do a promotional tour, visiting a different city every two days, doing book readings and signings.
Some people thought I’d be on the PGA Tour, that I’d win tournaments, play in majors, contend in majors, win majors. I thought they were crazy.
Good writers are in the business of leaving signposts saying, Tour my world, see and feel it through my eyes; I am your guide.
I know what we’re going to do as PWR BTTM. We’re going to put a new record out; we’re going to go on tour a lot, and we’re going to do cool stuff. We’re going to try to be kind to our friends and family and loved ones. And we’re going to look cute.
If Shakespeare had to go on an author tour to promote Romeo and Juliet, he never would have written Macbeth.
Why is it so hard for people to believe that white people are poor?! I wouldn’t say I lived in a ghetto; I’d say I lived in the ‘hood. The same friends I had back then are the same people on tour with me now.
If I’m not on tour or in the studio, I’m in nature somewhere, usually some kind of ocean. Playing music has afforded me that. It’s not lost on me that it’s a tremendous opportunity to be able to spend your life being surrounded by nature.
I like to listen to mellow stuff on the road like Travis, as we are constantly surrounded by rock music on tour and so its nice listening to mellow stuff. Obviously back at home I listen to a lot more rock music.
I’ve been on the tour for 12 years, and the big dream has always been to get a world title.
I’m super serious about that stuff. I mean, it’s rare that I sit down at a drum set when I’m not touring, because we tour so much.
Time management is probably the biggest thing I’ve had to learn to deal with being on the PGA Tour, whether it be media or figuring out how many weeks to play in a row. That’s been the biggest adjustment, coming from amateur and college golf.
I couldn’t just hand in any old rubbish – I can’t go on tour and sing something for three years if I don’t believe in it.
The first win came very quick, and I didn’t know what it meant to win a major championship. I was a teenager, I was very young. I didn’t know what I was doing. I just needed some time to get settled in on the tour.
I’ve always chosen my band members based on their sense of humor. It might sound stupid, but it means not only are they fun to live with on a tour bus for years, but humor implies intelligence.
It is an interesting fact that during my tour I was never allowed access to computers, radios, or anything else that I might damage through curiosity, or perhaps something more sinister.
I want to release six songs, let people listen to those, let them chill for a second, do a tour, release another six songs, chill for a second and then take my favorite four, put them on the album, and add some more.
We also tour nationally and internationally.
Tiesto is legend. I’ve been in the studio many times. We did a tour together; I jumped onstage with him, he jumped onstage with me. Still, every time, I have to pinch myself and realize this is the guy who made me start doing what I’m doing right now.
The fact of the matter is, when I’m on tour, I’m juggling so hard to keep all the balls in the air that I don’t often get to really enjoy what I’m out there doing.
After shows my face feels dirty with makeup and sweat, especially in the smaller venues, so it feels good to get back to the bus and smooth it away. Sometimes you need something alcohol-based, especially on tour when you don’t always get a chance to keep washing your face all the time.
I played golf for 25 years before I made a hole-in-one of any kind. I was on the tour for years before it finally happened. Eventually I made 23, but boy, that first one was a long time coming. It was the price I paid for not shooting at every flag.
I played guitar all my life, all the way through the Yardbirds, but I knew that for me, this was going to be a guitar vehicle, because that’s what I wanted it to be. There is no way I would play guitar like a tour de force like I did in Led Zeppelin.
Oh yeah, I don’t eat a lot of candy on tour. When I get home, man, I love candy. Oh, man, and ice cream. I can’t eat it on tour because of the sugar and my throat.
