Quotes About Escape

Maybe I'll want to go to Iceland and see the volcanoes, or attend some lectures, or go to Mexico and go to the jungle. On my own. With nothing whatsoever to do with music!

I grew up reading a lot of fantasy/sci-fi. It was really all I read - anything from 'Dragonlance,' when I was 12, to 'The Wheel of Time' and Robert Jordan stuff, to George R.R. Martin, who did 'Game of Thrones.'

All fliers have some concern about flying. Some handle it by 'flying' the plane. They're 'raising' the wheels, 'making' the turns and so on. Others handle it by tuning out... reading a book or watching a movie.

I'm the kind of person who would love to play whenever I felt like, with a band, and it might as well be the Holiday Inn in Nebraska - somewhere where no one knows you, and you're in a band situation just playing music.

Whenever I hear that I'm on the brink of stardom, I feel like I want to run into a cave.

I like to escape to the beach and kind of ground myself whenever I can.

I try to indulge my muse whenever I am able to get away from it all.

Whenever I get a free day, I drive up to some part of California that looks promising on the map.

When I was a child and teenager I read whenever I had the opportunity, but since then I've found it hard to read as much as I'd like, children, work, and pets all providing powerful incentives to escape into a book and a practical reason why I rarely do so.

I like gardening - it's a place where I find myself when I need to lose myself.

I long for the countryside. That's where I get my calm and tranquillity - from being able to come and find a spot of green.

Football is my sanctuary. It's where I go to escape. It's where I'm most happy.

I feel most at home in the water. I disappear. That's where I belong.

My favorite room in my house is my bedroom; my private space where I can go to do my reading or listen to music.

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.

At its very core, virtual reality is about being freed from the limitations of actual reality. Carrying your virtual reality with you, and being able to jump into it whenever and wherever you want, qualitatively changes the experience for the better. Experiencing mobile VR is like when you first tried a decent desktop VR experience.

Gilligan's Island is wherever you want it to be in your mind.

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.

My eyes, my brain seek out escape routes wherever I am sent.

I can bat in the morning, afternoon, evening, night, on ice, desert, wherever and whenever. It is almost nirvana for me. It takes me away from the stresses of life.

I went to Paris, I went to France, I went to England, I went to Ireland. In my mind, I can go wherever I wanted to go. I left death row every day.

Some people think 'Higher' is about literally getting high, and other people think it's more in a spiritual sense. To me, it's all that. To me, it was like I need to escape from this down state - emotionally, spiritually, mentally, everything. I want to be above this. Wherever we are now. I need to go up.

Music should be made to make people forget their problems, if only for a short while.

I find it refreshing to unplug from it for a while. You kind of forget how deeply you get embedded in it.