I really miss having a routine because now I’ve been on the road constantly for several months. I like routines, so it would be nice to get those routines back.

Trees go wandering forth in all directions with every wind, going and coming like ourselves, traveling with us around the sun two million miles a day, and through space heaven knows how fast and far!

I often visited a particular plant four or five miles distant, half a dozen times within a fortnight, that I might know exactly when it opened.

If I’m in Rome for only 48 hours, I would consider it a sin against God to not eat cacio e pepe, the most uniquely Roman of pastas, in some crummy little joint where Romans eat. I’d much rather do that than go to the Vatican. That’s Rome to me.

Water is my drink.

I don’t like drinking, basically.

Going to Southeast Asia for the first time and tasting that spectrum of flavors – that certainly changed my whole palate, the kind of foods I crave. A lot of the dishes I used to love became boring to me.

You should hurry up and acquire the cigar habit. It’s one of the major happinesses. And so much more lasting than love, so much less costly in emotional wear and tear.

I have been on the road and visited numerous places and met people from all over the globe. I can say that it looks nearly the same everywhere I have been: The climate crisis is ignored by people in charge, despite the science being crystal clear.

You don’t even really need a place. But you feel like you’re doing something. That is what coffee is. And that is one of the geniuses of the new coffee culture.

The saddest thing I can imagine is to get used to luxury.

Buy the ticket, take the ride.

I’m very much a creature of habit.

There have been times that I’ve wept as I’ve gone from city to city and I’ve seen how far people have wandered from God.

My music is a luxury.

When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.

I have a nice office. I have a nice house… So I’m not denying myself some great things. I just don’t happen to have expensive hobbies.

I like to talk about my obsession with french fries because I don’t want people to think that ‚Let’s Move‘ is about complete, utter deprivation. It’s about moderation and real-life changes and ideas that really work for families.

I have to be on such a strict diet constantly.

Writing and travel broaden your ass if not your mind and I like to write standing up.

Until 1914 I loved to travel; I often went to Italy and once spent a few months in India. Since then I have almost entirely abandoned travelling, and I have not been outside of Switzerland for over ten years.

I was in Europe and it was at this stage that I fell in love with Americans in uniform. And I continue to have that love affair.

It’s wonderful to be here in the great state of Chicago.

We travel often to Asia, Africa, Europe, where they were born.

Touring is very routine. You get to the city, you go to the hotel, you got to be at the hotel by a certain time – it’s very routine. I’m not a very structured person, so when I get some structure, it’s cool; it’s good for me.

People are using Windows PCs more than they watch TV now.

I have to admit I’ve found myself doing the same things that a lot of other rock stars do or are forced to do. Which is not being able to respond to mail, not being able to keep up on current music, and I’m pretty much locked away a lot. The outside world is pretty foreign to me.

Maybe some people can wake up and play PlayStation all day, but that’s never been me.

I hate to mention age, but I come from an era when we weren’t consumed by technology and television.

To start with, I love New York… It’s a little bit of the whole world… In New York, the whole world comes to you.

One never reaches home, but wherever friendly paths intersect the whole world looks like home for a time.

I don’t know what’s better gettin‘ laid or gettin‘ paid.

I feel like a spoilt rapper. I get to pick and choose everything.

I’ll bring my grits when I travel, because I get so hungry on the road.

I was gutted to leave my boyfriend at home when I started my tour, but taking my pillow was like taking a little bit of him with me.

To be able to travel the world, especially to places I never thought I’d be… it’s really, you know, still fascinating for me.

Not all those who wander are lost.

One of the huge imbalances in life is the disparity between your daily existence, with its routines and habits, and the dream you have within yourself of some extraordinarily satisfying way of living.

I believe that every human has a finite number of heartbeats. I don’t intend to waste any of mine running around doing exercises.

People don’t want to hear about me having leather walls or gold toilets.

Sometimes, women in families put themselves last until it manifests itself in their own health.

A lot of people can’t stand touring but to me it’s like breathing. I do it because I’m driven to do it.

The spirit of democracy is not a mechanical thing to be adjusted by abolition of forms. It requires change of heart.

I’m really good at sleeping on planes. I mean, I smell jet fuel and I’m out; I’m asleep for takeoff.

I don’t care about money.

I wonder how many decisions we make every day. I believe it’s probably hundreds. We decide whether or not to get out of bed, what we’ll eat, what we’ll do, what we’ll think about, what we’ll say… and on and on.

You learn a lot from traveling around.

Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts.

My justification is that most people my age spend a lot of time thinking about what they’re going to do for the next five or ten years. The time they spend thinking about their life, I just spend drinking.

Places I’ve lived since then had to have some kind of uniqueness and character about them. And logically Key West, and then Down Island. So, all of that stuff sort of had it’s roots in New Orleans and went crazy.

If McLaren give me a car, that’s fine, but I don’t tend to buy fancy stuff anyway or super-nice clothes.

My wife and I tried two or three times in the last 40 years to have breakfast together, but it was so disagreeable we had to stop.

Sometimes the greatest meals on vacations are the ones you find when Plan A falls through.

I listen to music all day every day. I can’t not listen to music. It’s kind of scary how much I listen to music, but it’s what I love, and it’s all I care about, so I’m good with it.

Milk is for babies. When you grow up you have to drink beer.

The fact is: It’s true what they say about the United States. It is a land of opportunity. It is too various to get bored with it.

As an example to others, and not that I care for moderation myself, it has always been my rule never to smoke when asleep, and never to refrain from smoking when awake.

I’ll live in Puerto Rico until the day I die.

It’s not the destination that matters. It’s the change of scene.

Many a trip continues long after movement in time and space have ceased.

You know, fame is a funny thing, man, especially, you know, actors, musicians, rappers, rock singers, it’s kind of a lifestyle and it’s easy to get caught up in it – you go to bars, you go to clubs, everyone’s doing a certain thing… It’s tough.