There's a pattern when tours start - a pattern of infighting, of making up, of breaking up, of addiction. There's a pattern of going to jail. There's a pattern of passion for music.
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Over time, certain people don't want to go on tour, and that can easily break up a band.
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.
When you keep the caliber of musicians very high in the band, people are going to come and go. Some of them will be people who have to try various things, it's natural.
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.
When you start playing music when you're quite young, it's easy to stay young. And then you're touring, and you see people who've been on the road for 10 or 15 years and they just haven't grown up at all.
You can always boil down the life of a musician to touring, playing, and writing.
Touring, and being in a band, it's almost like the other stuff, the other parts of life, get put on hold.
A tour is the most intense, stimulating way to hear music; it's the best form to receive it. There's genuine excitement from people. I feel like we've stepped up a level.
A lot of people these days are not music lovers - they just want to be famous which is a very different thing to what I grew up believing in.
I'll give up this sort of touring madness certainly, but music-everything is based on music. No, I'll never stop my music.