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A touring band is a family and a workplace at the same time, and you're living with people you didn't necessarily choose every day for up to a year.

The nature of touring is packaging acts together that have strong catalogues of music. It's about making sure that it's a winning combination. It's really about giving people value for their money.

Being in a rock band is about touring. It's about writing songs and it's about making records but it's also about taking a wonderful smile onto that stage and making the people feel good about themselves.

Touring is hard. It's really hard on the singer, especially, because your body is your instrument and you have to be so good, it's like boot camp out there; I can't do anything - just sleep, sing and be very healthy.

The best part of touring is the opportunity to make the music. You get to do what you love and have the ability to go out on stage every night and create.

So I've had lots of different bands over the years who have stayed with me for certain tours.

When you tour with a band, you're just out there, and it's just you guys. That's your little universe. If you do a play, it's the same deal. That becomes your world, for the cast and crew.

Touring and promoting and recording take a lot of time, it's just getting the right balance that's important.

Touring gets really lonely.

Touring is an incredibly isolated situation. I don't know how people tour for years on end. You find a lot of people who can't stop touring, and it's because they don't know how to come back into life. It's sort of unreal.