The equipment you've got really dictates what you're going to do. When I started touring, there were no monitors, so I had to take the sound from the hall, and of course it was on a delay, so I would sing, and then I would hear it back, but later. It was very weird.
I find it hard to get enthusiastic about hotels because, as a touring comic, I spend a lot of time in them.
I like to travel. I love touring, I love playing.
I'm not going around touring the U.S. when I've got nowhere to live.
I think comics in New York are interested in being comics. And there're comics in L.A. who are touring comics, who are certainly more interested in stand-up, but a lot of L.A. stand-ups are really looking to do something else.
My touring has never stopped; from the time I started doing stand-up, I've been on the road.
I don't drink anymore. That's a huge - that's a massive - difference in my life. It's made a huge change in my touring.
What I normally do with recording, performing, and touring is my name. It's all on my shoulders. If it's a great show, I'm great. If it's not a great show, I'm not great.
The worst thing about touring is the travel.
Getting on the bus and touring was my life. And when that was not around, I felt myself a bit lost at times, because that was all I had.
I tend to write better when I'm not touring.
My whole life was writing, recording and touring over and over again. At some point I realised I wasn't enjoying myself any more.
I enjoy touring and traveling because that's the time when I get to read, and listen to music. You have all that downtime, which is great for that.
When you're touring, it's somehow hard to focus on other things. I know other people can do it, but I really can't.
Yeah, touring can get rough some times and draining, but I always have to pinch myself and realize that I'm doing what I love.
If Daryl stopped touring it would be a big part of him missing.
If I stopped touring tomorrow, it wouldn't change my life.
I love touring - I don't do it as often as I should.
In its current incarnation in my life touring is a lot of airports and hotels and car services and only OK food.
Being a writer now is about so much more than writing. There's publishing, touring, marketing, web presence.
Actually, we didn't tour that much back in the 70s because we had all these other artists under our hat. My touring was really limited. I tour more now than I did back then.
I've always said I've wanted to be around forever. I never wanted to be the latest, greatest thing. I want to be like Willie Nelson - touring when I'm 70. To do that, you can't be the latest, greatest thing because those things fizzle out.
And touring is difficult when everybody's heads aren't in the same place.
Touring, and being in a band, it's almost like the other stuff, the other parts of life, get put on hold.
I do like touring but my life sort of starts to fall apart under it after a certain point. So you just have to stop. And it's hard to.
