Quotes About Travel

There are so many beautiful locations in Rajasthan, so many beautiful locations in our India that have not been explored. Foreigners come and explore such places, but we fail to see those locations with that perspective.

There's a whole beautiful world out there, and it was like riding a magic carpet, getting to know exotic, faraway places.

A lot of my world-view is formed by the places I've been.

I've done drives through Budapest and Oslo and used to drive to Sardinia, too, which is quite a journey. Drives are an adventure because I don't plan them too carefully. I take detours depending on how I feel and usually stop and stay at places I like the look of.

Eleven days before 9/11, I was on a plane with the 9/11 hijackers who were carrying out a dry run.

I do try to go home as much as possible after each show. I've got my own plane. I'm very fortunate.

I like to say, 'I spend one-third of my time in Nigeria, one-third in Europe or America, and one-third on a plane.'

I travel light, but always with three key things: Passport, cash and iPod. The latter is perhaps the most key - it keeps me going at the gym or on the plane; I listen to everything from rock to country to blues.

I need about three seats lengthwise to sleep on a plane. It's not easy for me to curl up.

The only person I've been able to get to go up with me, who looks forward to it as much as I do, is my wife. Whenever we want to get away, we can just get in a plane and fly off.

So far, and today, everything felt really great. Now I am good to get on the plane and fly to Australia.

When you're hurting after a match, the last thing you want to do is get in a car or on a plane to get to the next city.

I'd never been on a plane until I went to the Peach Bowl my freshman year at Iowa.

We used to have our own plane with the band's name on the side. It was a dream come true. You drive to a local airport. There's none of this checking in stuff; you just get on the plane.

Whenever I was flying commercial, I would land in Chicago, and they would announce, 'Get your passports out.' It happened so often, I would walk to the front of the plane and say, 'You're looking for me. Just take me; it will be easier for everybody else.

When I get off the plane in England I always feel about two inches shorter.

To this day, I still travel with scores. Every time I'm on a plane - it could be Stravinsky or Mozart or Ravel.

I will jump on anybody's private plane at the drop of a hat. I'm an old-fashioned lower-middle-class boy.

The first song I learnt to play was Leaving on a Jet Plane.'

I flew on a plane the week after 9/11.

If I'm talking about something current, a current issue or something political, it's because I was able to read it when I was on the plane getting to the gig... a lot of it happens when I'm on the road because when I'm home, you're just mom, and that's it.

When I get on a plane these days, I go first class.

If somebody wants me to speak in, say, Chicago, a limousine picks me up at the door to brings me to the airport. I fly at the front of the plane, and a limousine meets me at the other end to take me to a grand hotel, and usually an envelope is left for me with a per diem, maybe $150-a-day walking around money, and then I go home.

We see the sea as this place of leisure and this place, you know, a blue patch on the map to fly over because we all go by plane these days, mostly. And we don't really see it as a place of industry anymore.