Rickie Lee Jones Quotes

I'm a little bit of a gypsy myself. I've always had jobs where I'm moving around and I'm not sure what's going to happen tomorrow or the next day.

The least planned part of the journey, however, was the journey itself.

If I knew where I was going, I wouldn't do it. When I can predict or plan it, I don't do it.

When I was hitch-hiking, people had to follow me, 'cause I didn't stay long.

If I have a day off, I want to get on a plane and go to Paris! If I have a couple hours off work, I want to run to the market and make a four-course meal. I like to do things that are unexpected.

Hitchhiking was such a pure form of existence. You'd wake up in the morning, and you'd have no idea what your day was going to be. And that's something I've never been able to shake. I loved that.

I'm a vagabond. I have a suitcase that is ready to go at a moment's notice. The thought of being in one place for a long time, or playing one character for a long time, is terrifying for me.

A journey is a person in itself; no two are alike. And all plans, safeguards, policing, and coercion are fruitless. We find that after years of struggle that we do not take a trip; a trip takes us.

I never know where I am going, though. That is part of what makes it so wonderful. And after all, who does?

I really like to just jump in a truck with your backpack and just drive and go somewhere.

A good traveller is one who does not know where he is going to, and a perfect traveller does not know where he came from.

I am more of a surprise kind of guy. I love to find out as I go.

I don't just hop in the car. I have destinations. I drive to relax. I'll be gone for two weeks, hit four or five major cities. I don't like being nowhere for more than two or three days. I just go. I don't have a schedule.

I like things to be unpredictable.

We want to have a spontaneous adventure. You can't plan an adventure, or it ceases to be one.

Adventure is allowing the unexpected to happen to you. Exploration is experiencing what you have not experienced before. How can there be any adventure, any exploration, if you let somebody else - above all, a travel bureau - arrange everything before-hand?

I don't know where I see myself next month let alone five years. My whole life is last minute. I enjoy the spontaneity of it; I like not knowing what I will do next or whether I will be in the country next week. I just enjoy being around a creative environment.

Who knows? Maybe years from now I'll be on a ranch in Colorado with 10 kids. The whole point of life is to experience a little bit of everything, and I think it's better when there are a few surprises thrown in.

A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.

When I graduated from college in the spring of 1970, I decided to hitchhike around Europe with my guitar and my backpack. I was gone for about four months.

I will literally open my mouth not knowing what is coming out.

If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.

I try to travel as much as I can... I'm always looking for a reason to.

I travel a lot; I hate having my life disrupted by routine.

I like driving. A lot. I think that's something I just enjoy the most. I can, at a moment's notice, drive across the country if, you know, I had to.