Many times I've gone on tours with Paul Anka. He would have someone sitting behind him to keep people from even talking to him. You were almost in a little restricted area there.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I couldn't be touring unless my husband was on the road with me, taking care of our son while I'm onstage and doing interviews.
I've worked with a band, and it's nice to have someone to travel around with, but I didn't like it as well on stage.
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.
I mean, it takes a large entourage to put on a tour. You can't have 'em sittin' around.
I've done every kind of touring known to mankind. I've played the big and the small places.
I've gotten to go to the Opry a couple of times and stand backstage and watch. But I made it a point not to take a tour or stand in the circle until music took me there. I told myself that was one place I'd never go unless music took me there.
I never had tons of friends on tour. I was quiet and went about my business.
I do a lot of touring, yes, and I have my whole life ever since I was 19 years old, when I used to tour with Al Jarreau, Rickie Lee Jones, and Jackson Browne as a side musician.
I wished that I could have been down there because Paul actually wanted me to do the tour with him, but then he realized that it just wouldn't be right. It wouldn't be a solo tour anymore. It would look like just half of KISS.
I'd never been on tour until I met the Rudimental boys. Never done a live show in front of an audience.