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.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
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.
Touring, and being in a band, it's almost like the other stuff, the other parts of life, get put on hold.
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.
Touring can be repetitive at times.
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.
Touring is always important to me. It's like a big IOU to my fans, because I know they are the reason I exist.
Touring is really a pretty lonely business.
Touring is tough. You're almost in a haze because you don't really know where you are half the time: You're in a hotel room one moment, and the next thing you know, you're onstage performing for 60,000 people, then you're back on an airplane. It's very hectic and I couldn't do it without my family.
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.