I love touring. I can't wait. Everything is just normal when you're finally on tour. I think, for me, it's my happiest thing; I love moving around, and I have friends and family all over the place. It's kind of my time. It's almost like home. It's when I get to see everybody.

Alison Mosshart

We didn't realize there were that many boy bands until we started touring in Europe. I don't think we were ever affected by it since a lot of the groups in Europe didn't really sing live, but we did and would perform a cappella as well.

A. J. McLean

After years of touring you experience music festivals that are mostly the same - where you copy and paste the same experience into a muddy field in California or a muddy field in England.

Aaron Dessner

One of the negative sides of a really intense arc as a touring band is there are big gaps in your memory because you're so exhausted.

Aaron Dessner

Whenever I visited China in the past, the relationships always felt superficial; there was no time where I felt those moments of conflict and delight that make you feel close to another person. But since I started touring there in 2004, I would always collaborate with local musicians, and that opened up a new level of intimacy.

Abigail Washburn

Stuff used to get me really crazy, touring stuff. I used to hide. I hid from everybody. Back in '87, when things were so hectic, I'd run away. There was so much pressure.

Ad-Rock

The touring was crazy, it was a lot of work. But I enjoyed it.

Adam Ant

Touring is a rough thing. You don't have any time to look around or stop and think if what you're doing is making you happy. The more you tour, the better the band gets, and you get caught up in a lot more things than just traveling.

Adam Granduciel

In the past, we never really had that kind of spontaneity on record. When you start touring, you play songs in a certain way and then I start to feel like it's tough to really get lost in my playing.

Adam Granduciel

I'm scared of audiences. One show in Amsterdam I was so nervous, I escaped out the fire exit. I've thrown up a couple of times. Once in Brussels, I projectile vomited on someone. I just gotta bear it. But I don't like touring. I have anxiety attacks a lot.

Adele

King Crimson will soon be touring parts of Europe.

Adrian Belew

Mostly I've just been stealing little moments for myself in order to write - in the bathroom at a hotel, or just slipping away for a half an hour. Amidst all of the touring, life has been happening.

Adrianne Lenker

Eventually, when I sell enough units, as they say in the record business, I will stop touring. I'll concentrate on what I like to do... stay in the studio.

Al Jourgensen

I think if you retire from touring then people think you are retired.

Alan Jackson

Over the last couple of years, I've really worked toward balancing my life out more, having a little bit more time with friends, family and my boyfriend. There was a period of time when they were way down the list. It was all about music and touring and if everything fell by the wayside, so be it.

Alanis Morissette

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.

Alanis Morissette

Well, I've never been in a touring rock band, it was all just high school and college, playing toga parties in frat houses.

Alessandro Nivola

When I returned to the Touring Car championship, I got the team to create a special brake pedal that I could use with my prosthetic leg.

Alex Zanardi

There are certainly other female comics who are moms, but I don't know any who are actively touring with their kids. But there are more and more becoming moms, and it's awesome. I feel we're in a super sisterhood.

Ali Wong

I don't think I ever had a certain image of what touring was like... I think when you're young, you think it's very glamourous, but it's not.

Alice Merton

Grupo Limite is always going to be a major highlight of my life. We worked so hard, sometimes touring for 10 months at a time.

Alicia Villarreal