We're on tour to kind of explain why we do what we do, how its done and how we put it together.
I just finished touring, and I'm on a detox thing. It's a heavy detox, so nothing in my belly except water, salt, and cayenne pepper.
I was always bossy as a kid. I made my friends do shows that I wrote and would take them on tour from house to house.
I also never went there when I was little because I was too busy working and traveling on national tours.
For years I drove cross-country, back and forth a dozen times, sometimes on book tour, sometimes just to get lost and found.
If Shakespeare had to go on an author tour to promote Romeo and Juliet, he never would have written Macbeth.
It's pretty scripted on the road: very organised and compartmentalised, and that's the way it has to be with so many people involved in a Stones tour.
'Blind Date' was based on an Australian show called 'Perfect Match', which I first saw when I was on tour there. And I couldn't understand why it wasn't on British T.V.
I can go from one extreme to another, from playing at the Sydney Opera House on the Songbook tour to shows with Soundgarden at Voodoo Fest, all in a week.
When you are a rock star in front of 20,000 people, you receive instant gratification. A rock star on tour is a king in his domain.
I've never been much of a European traveler. London once on a book tour, and Italy because that's where Ferraris are from. That's about it.
I want to learn - there's so much I have to learn about what it takes to be a recording artist, about what it takes to go on tour.
I'm never going to retire and say, 'This is it. This is my last show.' I will not go on tour - I promised my wife and son no more than two weeks on the road.
With families, your priorities shift. You're not going to be like, 'Let's go out on tour year-round.' I have kids in school. You have to lay things out.
Starting in the mid-'80s, I played in a band called Meat Joy, and we made our own record, toured.
Dr. Ian Malcolm: [as they escape the T-Rex chasing after them in the Jeep] You think they'll have that on the tour?
That's usually what happens with AC/DC: you make an album, and then you're on the road flat out. And the only time you ever get near a studio is generally after you've done a year of touring.
I guess some of today's programming has rubbed off on me because I find myself having to set time around for touring, putting that together and then setting time around for recording.
So if you're on tour for eight months, a year... or whatever it is you definitely don't want arguments and I'm happy to say that I've always had a really nice bunch of people around me all the time.
Half the issues they - are so polished they're talking about - are dead by the time they get into the office, and into the midst of their tour where they're really productive.
If you go to Gettysburg and take the time, maybe take a tour, maybe just drive around, read some of the monuments, read some of the plaques, you will come away changed.
