Quotes About Travel

I've never met a person who does not want a safer world, better medical care and education for their children, and peace with their neighbours. I just don't meet those people. What I meet, over and over again, as I travel around, is that the essential human condition is optimistic - in every one of these places.

You're going very fast when you're on orbit, going around the world once every hour and a half.

Putting seven people in orbit should not cost more than flying a commercial jet around Earth.

Consultant: any ordinary guy more than fifty miles from home.

If I want to experience the life of an ordinary person, I cannot do it in Asia.

I've lived in Atlanta, Milwaukee, Dallas. I started in Orlando, so I've been north and south.

I don't feel at home in New Orleans. I don't feel at home in Austin or L.A. And I just felt immediately at home in northern Australia.

Going down to New Orleans, that's where I end up with the best meals.

The most interesting place I've gone on location was New Orleans.

I've always had an interest in Louisiana, especially New Orleans.

I once paddled a canoe the length of the Mississippi River all the way from Itasca to New Orleans.

I find that other countries have this or this, but Italy is the only one that has it all for me. The culture, the cuisine, the people, the landscape, the history. Just everything to me comes together there.

You have to go to other countries to realize Taipei is a place where there is diversity of thought.

Muslim clerics in India go to other countries, nobody knows what do they do, even the police can't go there.

I went to university for three years, but I wasn't in Ottawa for three years.

I loved going on the road... I think that's something everybody ought to experience one day - not necessarily as an artist, but just to get out and see the country.

We went with the St. Lawrence Experience, which is run by Joe Babbitt, who is a close friend now. We went out there for 10 days and we had the best week of our lives, and we've been going back since. We've been back three times now.

I do remember one of the first great experiences of going to Europe was playing in Rome hearing the people sing our music so loud. It was louder than the music we were playing.

My respect for TSA agents went up a notch. We look at 'em like, 'You can't bother me, I'm gettin' on my flight. Stop wastin' my time.' They're doing it to protect us. Their job is to do everything they're doing. We sometimes don't respect other people's jobs because we're caught up in our world.

I got to travel to some pretty awesome places, learn other people's customs, and see what works in their world differently than in ours.

My cousin's gay, he went to London only to find out that Big Ben was a clock.

I come up with more ideas when I'm on the road, but I don't get to finish them. I don't get to fully flush them out because I'm so busy on the road. I'm very all over the place, but I'm definitely most creative when I'm out here.

Ireland's always going to be my home, but so much is filmed in L.A., so you have to spend time out here.

There's something about being out here on the road that the hours aren't anything like what you're used to when you're at home.