Any East Coast road trip we have is very exciting, just being on the road, taking it all in.

Adventures are to the adventurous.

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.

I love driving my car on any highway.

I’m fascinated by musicians who don’t completely understand their territory; that’s when you do your best work.

My message, especially to young people is to have courage to think differently, courage to invent, to travel the unexplored path, courage to discover the impossible and to conquer the problems and succeed. These are great qualities that they must work towards. This is my message to the young people.

I used to watch MotoGP quite a bit, I liked MotoGP. I had a motorbike before I had a go-kart and before I had a motorbike I had a quad bike but I was too dangerous, and before I did quad biking I did horse riding, so it’s been a long journey.

No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit.

Not all those who wander are lost.

The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.

America had often been discovered before Columbus, but it had always been hushed up.

When I was 18, I went to the Soviet Union. I kept hearing that America was planning to bomb them – lots of bombs were going to come down on these people. I went there not knowing anything, except that I thought the whole thing was stupid and that I wanted to see who these people were that we were going to bomb.

I think Pebble Beach is kind of a unique place on the planet.

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

I’ve never been to New Zealand before. But one of my role models, Xena, the warrior princess, comes from there.

There can never be any stop to learn about different cultures by travelling to different places. And whatever comes your way, continue the healthy eating habits.

On vacations: We hit the sunny beaches where we occupy ourselves keeping the sun off our skin, the saltwater off our bodies, and the sand out of our belongings.

A man who has not been in Italy, is always conscious of an inferiority.

When we understand string theory, we will know how the universe began. It won’t have much effect on how we live, but it is important to understand where we come from and what we can expect to find as we explore.

I’ve experienced great things, I’ve experienced great tragedies. I’ve done almost everything I could possibly ever imagine doing, but I just know that there’s more.

It’s the journey of self, I guess. You start with this kind of loner, outside guy, which a lot of people can relate to, and he goes out into the world.

If you had your life to live over again, do it overseas.

A tramp, a gentleman, a poet, a dreamer, a lonely fellow, always hopeful of romance and adventure.

Juvenile crime is not naturally born in the boy, but is largely due either to the spirit of adventure that is in him, to his own stupidity, or to his lack of discipline, according to the nature of the individual.

I’m a wandering gypsy.

Here ends my forever memorable first High Sierra excursion. I have crossed the Range of Light, surely the brightest and best of all the Lord has built. And, rejoicing in its glory, I gladly, gratefully, hopefully pray I may see it again.

To be admitted to Nature’s hearth costs nothing. None is excluded, but excludes himself. You have only to push aside the curtain.

I stayed in a really old hotel last night. They sent me a wake-up letter.

Everywhere is within walking distance if you have the time.

All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own. And if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy it.

The universe is wider than our views of it.

I think all documentaries leave out areas of people’s lives. Which is good. There are areas that need not be explored.

We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us.

Life is an adventure, it’s not a package tour.

Any man who can hitch the length and breadth of the galaxy, rough it, slum it, struggle against terrible odds, win through, and still knows where his towel is is clearly a man to be reckoned with.

Anywhere I go, there is always an incredible crowd that follows me. In Rome, as I land at the airport, even the men kiss me. I love Rome.

I’m not someone who sits at home and doesn’t like to go out, doesn’t like to watch movies. I like to live my life.

One of the interesting things about having little musical knowledge is that you generate surprising results sometimes; you move to places you wouldn’t if you knew better.

Life is an unfoldment, and the further we travel the more truth we can comprehend. To understand the things that are at our door is the best preparation for understanding those that lie beyond.

I had a project for my life which involved 10 years of wandering, then some years of medical studies and, if any time was left, the great adventure of physics.

An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.

My desire was not to pass any island without taking possession, so that, one having been taken, the same may be said of all.

I’ve been to Disneyland, like, 10 times. I’m getting really tired of Disneyland.

On the way back from Mumbai to go meet with President Xi in China, I stopped in Singapore to meet with a guy named Lee Kuan Yew, who most foreign policy experts around the world say is the wisest man in the Orient.

America is a poem in our eyes; its ample geography dazzles the imagination, and it will not wait long for metres.

I could do one show after another in China for the rest of my life and still die ignorant. There’s a lot of places left to go.

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

I dislike feeling at home when I am abroad.

I remember I was flying home to Los Angeles one day. I was talking to the woman next to me and the flight attendant tried to tell me I was sitting next to somebody that I should know. I didn’t recognize her but it ended up being Beyonce’s sister, Solange Knowles.

Flying might not be all plain sailing, but the fun of it is worth the price.

Generally speaking, a howling wilderness does not howl: it is the imagination of the traveler that does the howling.

We’re introducing separate rooms with double beds in all of our planes so people can actually go with their partner and have a proper night’s sleep.

Anyone who’s traveled with me to Afghanistan knows why I love this book: ‚War,‘ by Sebastian Junger.

Women have a certain sexuality, and I think their bodies are beautiful, and I’m not embarrassed to explore that in a film. But there are things you get offered that are vulgar and violent – just like there’s a side of me that’s vulgar and violent.

Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon, and seldom drive business home to the full period, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success.

Even Hubble hasn’t found yet the end of this universe, and we don’t know that it has any end.

To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.

Acting helped me as I was growing up. It helped me learn about myself, helped me travel, helped me understand life, express myself, all those wonderful things. So I’m very, very grateful; it’s a fun job. It’s a luxury.

Rebellion is what you make of it. When you’ve been on a tour bus for two months straight, and then you get in your car and drive wherever you want, that can feel rebellious.

In America, there might be better gastronomic destinations than New Orleans, but there is no place more uniquely wonderful.

U2’s best work has always been when we didn’t know what we’re doing.