Did you ever notice that the first piece of luggage on the carousel never belongs to anyone?

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.

No place is better than Akron.

Italy, and the spring and first love all together should suffice to make the gloomiest person happy.

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!

If you don’t trust the pilot, don’t go.

With all singers, insecurity is your best security. That’s why we’re such loud people and why we walk all funny. You think, ‚Are people interested?‘ But I think our band has something and they know we don’t just put albums out. We do think about it.

Sometimes the road less traveled is less traveled for a reason.

I’m a wandering gypsy.

Of all the mountain ranges I have climbed, I like the Sierra Nevada the best.

A journey is a person in itself; no two are alike. And all plans, safeguards, policing, and coercion are fruitless. We find that after years of struggle that we do not take a trip; a trip takes us.

The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see.

Life would be tragic if it weren’t funny.

When one travels around the world, one notices to what an extraordinary degree human nature is the same, whether in India or America, in Europe or Australia.

I’m not saying that people should stop flying. I’m just saying it needs to be easier to be climate neutral.

I guess when you turn off the main road, you have to be prepared to see some funny houses.

I’ve always been a bit of a gypsy.

I never write about the road. I never write about hotels or anything like that.

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.

If Everton were playing down the bottom of my garden, I’d draw the curtains.

Sometimes I wish my first word was ‚quote,‘ so that on my death bed, my last words could be ‚end quote.‘

I told Warren if he mentions Prop. 13 one more time, he has to do 500 push-ups.

In Paris, you’re as far as possible from the land of pleasant smiles.

A lot of people are afraid of heights. Not me, I’m afraid of widths.

And I wound up in New Orleans for all those years and it was a great place, really a catalyst creatively.

If you want to go somewhere, it is best to find someone who has already been there.

I came to China to follow my star and to steep myself in the raw regions of the universe.

Buy the ticket, take the ride.

If I can give you one strong piece of advice, when you go away for that romantic weekend, whatever you do, do not accept or take the upgrade to the honeymoon suite.

I was born in Europe… and I’ve traveled all over the world. I can tell you that there is no place, no country, that is more compassionate, more generous, more accepting, and more welcoming than the United States of America.

Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.

In my youth, I traveled much, and I observed in different countries, that the more public provisions were made for the poor, the less they provided for themselves, and of course became poorer. And, on the contrary, the less was done for them, the more they did for themselves, and became richer.

When I arrived in Laos and found young Americans living there, out of free choice, I was surprised. After only a week, I began to have a sense of the appeal of the country and its people – along with despair about its future.

All I really had was a suitcase and my drums. So I took them up to Seattle and hoped it would work.

I shouldn’t be near Vegas and have money in my pocket.

I’ve been everywhere in the world, seen everything, had everything a man can have.

You can’t trample infidels when you’re a tortoise. I mean, all you could do is give them a meaningful look.

I can’t even speak Hawaiian, but if you go there and listen to a Hawaiian song, you get captured because it’s so beautiful, like the melody is just gorgeous and you know Bob Marley is on the radio every single day. It’s very reggae-influenced down there. Basically, you haven’t been to paradise if you haven’t been to Hawaii.

A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.

I make good music for long journeys.

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.

The notion that before you even set out to go to Thailand, you say, ‚I’m not interested,‘ or you’re unwilling to try things that people take so personally and are so proud of and so generous with, I don’t understand that, and I think it’s rude. You’re at Grandma’s house, you eat what Grandma serves you.

Fuel prices are at the center of our lives. They affect our ability to travel, stay warm, and feed ourselves.

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.

Observations indicate that the universe is expanding at an ever increasing rate. It will expand forever, getting emptier and darker.

Everywhere is nowhere. When a person spends all his time in foreign travel, he ends by having many acquaintances, but no friends.

I love California, I practically grew up in Phoenix.

I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.

When all the routines and details and the human bores get on our nerves, we just yearn to go away from here to somewhere else. To go fishing is a sound, a valid, and an accepted reason for an escape. It requires no explanation.

One of the things that I have admired about India is the spiritualism of the people.

I have visited Japan several times and have always been shown wonderful hospitality.

There was a time when people said, ‚Jim, if you keep on making faces, your face will freeze like that.‘ Now they just say, ‚Pay him!‘

I hope to play until I’m, like, 38 or something, and that’s a lot of years in the game and a lot of travel and a lot of sacrifice on my family’s part.

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

At the age of 6, a teacher full of ambitions, who taught in the small public school of Biran, convinced my family that I should travel to Santiago de Cuba to accompany my older sister who would enter a highly prestigious convent school. Including me was a skill of that very teacher from the little school in Biran.

Frisbeetarianism is the belief that when you die, your soul goes up on the roof and gets stuck.

It’s funny; recently I’ve started to notice people’s impersonations of me, and it’s basically like a hyperactive child.

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.

Most home teams have chapels, so when I’m on the road I’ll probably go to their services.

In the Spring, I have counted 136 different kinds of weather inside of 24 hours.

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.