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"facebook dialogPinterest\n\n Tonight, the Honda Civic Tour kicks off in Raleigh, North Carolina with a stellar bill -- Paramore, Tegan and Sara, New Found Glory, and Kadawatha.\n\nI caught up with the lovely Sara Quin (of Tegan and Sara) last week, while she was in the midst of a rare week off, to hear about the duo's plans for the tour, their next album, and general merriment in between:\n\nWhat do you do to relax? The truth is that my week off wouldn't seem relaxing to anyone else. Like, after our tour in London, I went to Wimbledon and then I came back to Montreal to work on some collaborations with another artist. So I've been working on music and then I read a lot. I turn into a real introvert when I get back to Montreal. After being on the road where there's fourteen of us on the bus and you're constantly surrounded by other people, it's a good balance.\n\nWhat books are you reading? I've just finished David Mamet's Bambi vs. Godzilla -- it's basically a collection of essays about the movie industry. I can draw a lot of parallels with the music industry. Lately I've also been really drawn to reading about sport as a way to sort of compare or contrast how I feel about the stamina needed to be in the music business and tour all the time. I really relate to the 24 hours a day, 7 days a week mentality of it. You're always training, always competing, always talking to yourself about the next match or the next work-out -- there's an addictive, cyclical thought process.\n\nYou're about to head out on the road for two months to play on the Honda Civic Tour. How do you mentally prepare? Boredom is a huge factor on the road -- and it breeds unhappiness. People get cranky and there's a sort of hyperbolic, 'oh my God what am I doing with my life' or 'oh my God, how can we live this way, it's not normal' crisis. Because of that Tegan and I have naturally gravitated toward working on other projects or writing and stuff like that. Tegan's really into that workout program \"Insanity\" right now -- that's her hobby. So she gets up every day and does this crazy workout and I feel like she's turning into a different person. Physically, I still see us as being the same and then I recently saw photos and I look like her sick sister, like I'm like melting or something. I just look sickly, like she's going to have like to start carrying me around in her arms. So she's getting really physically strong and I keep saying that I'm building my intellectual muscles because I just read all the time and am really into podcasts. I'm doing \"Mental Insanity.\"\n\nRead on for Sara's tips on how to find the band on tour (think: karaoke and exotic animals) and what memorable things she and Tegan have been given by fans on tour."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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