Album Quote by Dave Rowntree

Each album takes two or two-and-a-half years to finish between recording and touring. It's like being with an old boyfriend every single night watching…

— Bat for Lashes

But we're still rehearsing and planning to make a new album next year. We have some really good new songs that we've already been…

— Stephen Malkmus

Traditionally the show must go on which is a stupid thing to say, but that in a nutshell is what's going on. We have…

— Kerry King

So we are not doing the traditional album, tour, album, tour, album, tour anymore. We're going to tour when we want to, regardless of…

— Ed O'Brien

In 2008, we had barely put our first album out and a lot of people were unsure about us on that tour. But the…

— Mitch Lucker

Each album has its own cycle. We wanted to capture all those feelings and moments for this touring cycle.

— Brad Delson

You know, we love what we do, man, and I don't want to be one of those bands that we write an album, tour…

— Ivan Moody

There's a lot of bands that don't release an album every year. There's a lot of bands that take three, four or five years…

— Shavo Odadjian

Every album is like starting our career over again. We don't get blase, we don't get lazy.

— Curt Smith

There's something insane about this business - about the cycle of making albums and going on tour to promote them.

— Martin Gore

We're covering all our bases so we can do whatever we want next time. That's how we're looking at it, rather than this just…

— Robin Pecknold

The process of touring is always so weird to me. Once you've made the album, that's over, you move along.

— John Darnielle