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.

I had rather have a fool to make me merry than experience to make me sad and to travel for it too!

Growing up, my grandmother did not want worldly music in the house. Then when I went out to California, I started listening to Spanish music, mostly Mexican music. But were I in Egypt, I would listen to the music of the people, or if I was in Italy, I’d listen to Italian music.

To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.

I always tell people that if I move anywhere it would be Toronto.

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

This is the first age that’s ever paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one.

Our society strives to avoid any possibility of offending anyone – except God.

You’d have a hard time finding anything better than Barcelona for food, as far as being a hub. Given a choice between Barcelona and San Sebastian to die in, I’d probably want to die in San Sebastian.

All violent feelings have the same effect. They produce in us a falseness in all our impressions of external things, which I would generally characterize as the pathetic fallacy.

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

Y’all are so cute and y’all talk so proper over here. I love England.

I have kind of a funny relationship with movies. I don’t have to see the whole movie to get an impression of it or to let it have an influence on me.

Expecting is the greatest impediment to living. In anticipation of tomorrow, it loses today.

The symbolism of the climate strike is that if you adults don’t give a damn about my future, I won’t either.

Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.

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.

We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.

Let us sacrifice our today so that our children can have a better tomorrow.

You learn a lot from traveling around.

It’s amazing, the culture Coach Belichick has been able to create in our system.

Earth might one day soon resemble the planet Venus.

I’ve always been a bit of a gypsy.

I really do encourage other manufacturers to bring electric cars to market. It’s a good thing, and they need to bring it to market and keep iterating and improving and make better and better electric cars, and that’s what going to result in humanity achieving a sustainable transport future. I wish it was growing faster than it is.

The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life.

If you’re embarking around the world in a hot-air balloon, don’t forget the toilet paper.

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.

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

My daughter has impressions that she does of me.

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 value of beauty and inspiration is very much underrated, no question. But I want to be clear: I’m not trying to be anyone’s savior. I’m just trying to think about the future and not be sad.

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.

Adventure is worthwhile in itself.

I think we have a duty to maintain the light of consciousness to make sure it continues into the future.

I don’t try to describe the future. I try to prevent it.

I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.

Without culture, and the relative freedom it implies, society, even when perfect, is but a jungle. This is why any authentic creation is a gift to the future.

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.

As I got older, my pops tried to keep me involved with the culture by telling me the stories of the conflict between Ethiopia and Eritrea, how he came to America, and about our family back home, because all that side of my family – my aunties, grandparents – is in Africa.

For me, when you are have people wondering what is next, what is coming out, you are on the right track.

To recruit staff, I traveled all over the country talking with people who had been working on one or another aspect of the atomic-energy enterprise and people in radar work, for example, and underwater sound, telling them about the job, the place that we are going to, and enlisting their enthusiasm.

The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.

There is a level of snobbery and fickleness in L.A.

It is natural to want to have a future.

I’ve been to Uganda and to North Korea and to Eritrea, countless horror spots around the world.

Who has fully realized that history is not contained in thick books but lives in our very blood?

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

For the introduction of a new kind of music must be shunned as imperiling the whole state; since styles of music are never disturbed without affecting the most important political institutions.

Foreignness is all around. Only in the heart of the heart of the country, namely the heart of the United States, can you avoid such a thing. In the center of an empire, you can think of your experience as universal. Outside the empire or on the fringes of the empire, you cannot.

I feel Anglo-American.

I never think of the future – it comes soon enough.

It is hard to be an individual in Japan.

I’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.

To me, the black black woman is our essential mother, the blacker she is the more us she is and to see the hatred that is turned on her is enough to make me despair, almost entirely, of our future as a people.

Travel teaches toleration.

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

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

Tradition is the illusion of permanence.

Being on tour is like being in limbo. It’s like going from nowhere to nowhere.

I love the natural world – it comes from my culture, which grew out of a people enslaved.

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