Steak and Shake in Indianapolis is definitely the first stop when we hit that city.

Even though I write about the human race, the further away from them, the better I feel. Two miles is great; two thousand miles is beautiful.

Every time I come to Europe, I’m just as excited as I was my very first time, which was many, many years ago. I love that part of the world, and I especially love the fans.

There are GMO skeptics more in Europe maybe than in other places, but not exclusively.

I myself prefer my New Zealand eggs for breakfast.

The land created me. I’m wild and lonesome. Even as I travel the cities, I’m more at home in the vacant lots.

I became a beach bum.

Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.

My dinners at home are startlingly simple. Every night, I stop at the market near my hotel and pick up a steak, lamb chops or some liver, which I broil in the electric oven in my room. I usually eat four or five raw carrots with my meat, and that is all. I must be part rabbit; I never get bored with raw carrots.

I am not solicitous to examine particularly everything here, which indeed could not be done in fifty years, because my desire is to make all possible discoveries, and return to your Highnesses, if it please our Lord, in April.

I would drive to gigs in my tiny little Fiat. I would shoot up and down the M1 to play at various places.

A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner.

Man seems to be the only animal whose food soils him, making necessary much washing and shield-like bibs and napkins. Moles living in the earth and eating slimy worms are yet as clean as seals or fishes, whose lives are one perpetual wash.

You just feel a little odd when you don’t get your kind of food. Fortunately, there are Indian restaurants all over the world.

The traveller has reached the end of the journey!

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

French fries kill more people than guns and sharks, yet nobody’s afraid of French fries.

Anyone who doesn’t have a great time in San Francisco is pretty much dead to me.

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

The glamour of it all! New York! America!

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

My experiences in life are getting bigger and better. The more stuff I do, the more stuff I talk about – having kids, traveling, going through relationship problems, dealing with things in my own family. All that stuff builds character.

I’ve always been a bit of a gypsy.

Oh yes, there’s lots of great food in America. But the fast food is about as destructive and evil as it gets. It celebrates a mentality of sloth, convenience, and a cheerful embrace of food we know is hurting us.

A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.

Traveling around the world and preaching for over 70 years did not give much time for reflection.

People who eat with their mouth open should be punched in the face.

My mother was a very wonderful woman. When she and my dad divorced, she moved to California and worked two jobs in the cannery at night and as a waitress during the day. But she saved enough money to establish a restaurant.

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

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.

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

I hated the Naked Chef. Fine, yes, he did good things for school food or whatever, but, you know, I don’t want my chefs to be cute and adorable.

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

The purpose of a vacation is to have the time to rest. But many of us, even when we go on vacation, don’t know how to rest. We may even come back more tired than before we left.

To other countries, I may go as a tourist, but to India, I come as a pilgrim.

Exploration by real people inspires us.

Cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.

I remember as a little girl going down to the beet fields in the Dakotas and in Nebraska and Wyoming as migrant workers when I was very, very small, like, I was, like, 5 years old, I believe. And I remember going out there, you know, traveling to these states and living in these little tarpaper shacks that they had in Wyoming.

Tokyo would probably be the foreign city if I had to eat one city’s food for the rest of my life, every day. It would have to be Tokyo, and I think the majority of chefs you ask that question would answer the same way.

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.

It is better to travel well than to arrive.

Together, we can help make sure that every family that walks into a restaurant can make an easy, healthy choice.

As a teenager, I went to Bali a lot, but it’s a long, long way from England. Which is why, when we bought Necker Island, we made it like a mini Bali.

By seeing London, I have seen as much of life as the world can show.

If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.

Dinner was made for eating, not for talking.

I love Africa, and Ulusaba, our home in South Africa, is pretty special. It’s on a rocky hill overlooking the bush, and from your room, you can see lions stalking zebras by the waterhole.

Papa, potatoes, poultry, prunes and prism, are all very good words for the lips.

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.

There is one thing I have never taught my body how to do and that is to figure out at 6 A.M. what it wants to eat at 6 P.M.

Over the last 15 months, we’ve traveled to every corner of the United States. I’ve now been in 57 states? I think one left to go.

I have no desire to crow over anybody or to see anybody eating crow, figuratively or otherwise. We should all get together and make a country in which everybody can eat turkey whenever he pleases.

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

When I go to a restaurant, yeah, I know that a line is probably going to form in front of the table, but didn’t I always wish for that? Yeah, I did.

When I prepare, I am not messing around. I find the right places, the right people, and the right environment. Iceland is one of those places.

We have food all around us all the time, and if we haven’t eaten for three hours, we think we’re starving. You’re not starving – human beings can go for 30 days without food.

In general, mankind, since the improvement of cookery, eats twice as much as nature requires.

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.

Remember, man does not live on bread alone: sometimes he needs a little buttering up.

I’m one of the most adaptable guys I know in as much as travelling is my favourite thing to do in life. With every place I go, I try to stay there long enough to do it justice, long enough so that I can at least imagine what it would be like to live there. Once I imagine that, then it’s OK for me to return home.

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