"Playing 1,000 shows is quite something, and yet if someone had said it was 5,000 the number would still have felt low, given the extraordinary effort, sacrifice, commitment(and stress) that's been poured into those shows over the years. Each tour is a life within a life, a world within a world. Each one a unique adventure. I have been touring my entire adult life, from a nervous, out-of-my-depth, sulky young man to something entirely different today. It's a life like no other, and I feel privileged to have reached the 1,000 show milestone, and honoured to have shared that journey with so many of you."
- Gary Numan