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.
Matthew McConaugheyBy seeing London, I have seen as much of life as the world can show.
Samuel JohnsonFlying might not be all plain sailing, but the fun of it is worth the price.
Amelia EarhartI don’t watch television and I rarely go to the cinema, but I recently watched ‚The King’s Speech‘ on a flight. It was so beautiful and so simple.
Vivienne WestwoodBig stuff and little: learning how to order breakfast in a country where I don’t speak the language and haven’t been before – that’s really satisfying to me. I like that.
Anthony BourdainBuy the ticket, take the ride.
Hunter S. ThompsonIf you’re waiting for the perfect moment, you’ll never write a thing because it will never arrive. I have no routine. I have no foolproof anything. There’s nothing foolproof.
Margaret AtwoodIn the morning a man walks with his whole body; in the evening, only with his legs.
Ralph Waldo EmersonNot all those who wander are lost.
J. R. R. TolkienOver 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.
Barack ObamaIf 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.
Gordon RamsayIn Paris, you’re as far as possible from the land of pleasant smiles.
Kanye WestI sleep seven hours. If I go to bed at two, I wake up at nine. If I go to bed at midnight, I wake up at seven. I don’t wake up before – the house can fall apart, but I sleep for seven hours.
Karl LagerfeldYou just feel a little odd when you don’t get your kind of food. Fortunately, there are Indian restaurants all over the world.
Virat KohliI’m a singer, not a politician, and I think you don’t want the two to get confused. It’s not OK to be on CNN talking about people starving and then tell the interviewer that your new album is coming out in six months.
BonoTo other countries, I may go as a tourist, but to India, I come as a pilgrim.
Martin Luther King, Jr.The traveller has reached the end of the journey!
Edmund BurkeMusic itself is going to become like running water or electricity. So it’s like, just take advantage of these last few years because none of this is ever going to happen again. You’d better be prepared for doing a lot of touring because that’s really the only unique situation that’s going to be left.
David BowieWherever I go, as long as I get a hot vegetable dish, I am okay. If I am in Gujarat, I have Gujarati food. If it’s Shillong, it’s northeastern.
A. P. J. Abdul KalamI’ve been waiting over 40 years to come to Cyprus, and it has not disappointed – the birthplace of Aphrodite, the Crossroads of Civilization, and, I might add, a genuine strategic partner to the United States of America.
Joe BidenI take my kids to school. And if I go to work, I go to work, and they visit me on set. I come home. I have dinner with my family. I have breakfast with my family. I have a very solid, very warm home.
Angelina JolieIf you want to go somewhere, it is best to find someone who has already been there.
Robert KiyosakiGoing 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.
Anthony BourdainAny East Coast road trip we have is very exciting, just being on the road, taking it all in.
Stephen CurryI’ve been singing Shakira songs in front of my bathroom mirror into my hairbrush forever. It’s like a daily routine.
Taylor SwiftI went by myself to Hollywood, I spoke no English, every day I had to go to school.
Jackie ChanWhen I went back to England after a year away, the country seemed stuck, dozing in a fairy tale, stifled by the weight of tradition.
Brian EnoI consider myself a poet first and a musician second. I live like a poet and I’ll die like a poet.
Bob DylanIn all my wild mountaineering, I have enjoyed only one avalanche ride; and the start was so sudden, and the end came so soon, I thought but little of the danger that goes with this sort of travel, though one thinks fast at such times.
John MuirThere 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.
Billy GrahamAnyone who doesn’t have a great time in San Francisco is pretty much dead to me.
Anthony BourdainOne never reaches home, but wherever friendly paths intersect the whole world looks like home for a time.
Hermann HesseThe use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.
Samuel JohnsonI love California, I practically grew up in Phoenix.
Dan QuayleThe reason that I’m here at all is because of my relationship with my family and their encouragement of me to be a musician and to work hard. As long as I stay there in that space, I can do anything. That’s my truth.
Lady GagaThe biggest thing is just routine. I think that’s the biggest correlation between golfers and basketball players.
Stephen CurryI did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there I could best see the moonlight amid the mountains. I do not wish to go below now.
Henry David ThoreauI just kept touring and touring until it became second nature to go onstage, perform, and sing.
The WeekndI have visited Japan several times and have always been shown wonderful hospitality.
Stephen HawkingPeople from all over the world come to London wanting to make their own mark on it, and they add to the energy and vitality of the capital. It’s got a bit busier since the ’60s, but the more the merrier!
Richard BransonI’m not afraid to look like a big, hairy, smelly, foreign devil in Tokyo, though I do my best not to, I really do.
Anthony BourdainI spent more time on dark ships in danger zones than any other woman in the world.
Elizabeth KennyThe traveler sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see.
Gilbert K. ChestertonOf course, it does depend on the people, but sometimes I’m invited places to kind of brighten up a dinner table like a musician who’ll play the piano after dinner, and I know you’re not really invited for yourself. You’re just an ornament.
Marilyn MonroeOnly by going alone in silence, without baggage, can one truly get into the heart of the wilderness. All other travel is mere dust and hotels and baggage and chatter.
John MuirA man who has not been in Italy, is always conscious of an inferiority.
Samuel JohnsonA great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest; Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem; and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art.
Benjamin DisraeliI 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.
Bruno MarsI would like to go back to Wales. I’m obsessed with my childhood and at least three times a week dream I am back there.
Anthony HopkinsI just really want to get music out and tour and go places I’ve never been, and just do more videos. I love photography and videography, and so I really want to direct videos when I can.
Billie EilishMost people dream a dream when they are asleep. But to be a writer, you have to dream while you are awake, intentionally. So I get up early in the morning, 4 o’clock, and I sit at my desk and what I do is just dream. After three or four hours, that’s enough. In the afternoon, I run. The next day, the dream will continue.
Haruki MurakamiAll I do is make music.
The WeekndI’ve never been to New Zealand before. But one of my role models, Xena, the warrior princess, comes from there.
Madeleine AlbrightDelhi means everything to me. This city has given me everything, and I love it.
Virat KohliI signed up to be a musician, I want to perform, I want to sing.
Bruno MarsAnd I saw the sax line-up that he had behind him and I thought, I’m going to learn the saxophone. When I grow up, I’m going to play in his band. So I sort of persuaded my dad to get me a kind of a plastic saxophone on the hire purchase plan.
David BowieTouring is hard on the body.
EminemThere’s nowhere else like London. Nothing at all, anywhere.
Vivienne WestwoodNo one sells a song better than the person that wrote it.
Bruno MarsI do the same exercises I did 50 years ago and they still work. I eat the same food I ate 50 years ago and it still works.
Arnold Schwarzenegger