John Paul DeJoria Quotes

Anyway, in the mid 80's I was spending a fortune buying old Golden Age books from the late 30's and 40's and I was making personal appearances at a lot of sci fi and comic book conventions all around the country here so that I could find books for my collection.

My family went to Toronto to visit relatives when I was 13 or 14. It was the first time we had ever been abroad. This was the early Eighties, and I remember the impossible glamour of air travel - my mum spending days trying to decide what she was going to wear on the plane.

The illusion that times that were are better than those that are, has probably pervaded all ages.

Me personally, I want to entertain people above all. When you look back at burlesque in history and the real golden age of burlesque, those entertainers were there to entertain, and there wasn't usually some big political message behind what they were doing.

Every artistic form has its golden age, and unfortunately I think the golden age for whatever I do probably ended about 1990.

Where children are, there is the golden age.

Rail travel for me is the most relaxing, most scenic way to see the country.

The good old times—all times when old are good.

I never travelled when I was younger.

My 40th birthday I held in an old-age home. My 50th I had at Pravda before it opened in New York. My 60th I had at Pastis. For my 70th, I thought, 'I don't need to have a celebrity party this year. I'm going to go take my oldest, closest friends to Paris.'

I've gotten to travel all over the world and meet all kinds of people and do all kinds of great things, so it's, like, surreal. It just lets you know how time flies, especially when you're having fun. It seems like time keeps going by faster as I get older.

I'm not someone like Norma Desmond who's harking back to her younger days.

I'm definitely conscious of time. I already waste so much of it, just on a flight. I look back to when I was 13, and I wish I had stuck with my piano studies.

I was on a tour of a Restoration comedy in 1996, and in Moscow we stayed at the Metropole hotel, off Red Square. The food there was opulent, but in the Maly theatre canteen, there were just a few pieces of rye bread, peanuts, and gherkins. I stood in the queue and burst into tears.

The advantage of trains over planes is that there is much less hassle. You can get up from your seat and stroll about; you're more likely to meet people, and, particularly if you're making a long journey, you can actually see the terrain.

I can picture it now, where I grew and me playing in the cage where I used to play. To see what I've achieved and where I've been, the countries I've seen, tournaments I've played in, players I've played against, it's incredible.

Our memory is and always will be as good as time travel gets, and in the meantime time will do the travelling for us.

In the early '80s, my family vacationed to the United States.

My children and their generation are not aware of the stardom I had enjoyed during my younger days.

Each time I go away internationally or even to the mainland, I always love coming back to Tasmania.

When I went to Munich, I was perhaps a little too young.

N.Y. is like second home to me. I love that city. I have lived there for a couple of years and it's always a pleasure to go back there.

I backpacked around Thailand when I was a university student and have wanted to return ever since.

For me, it's very childish to tour on a train. And I think that's a powerful quality, to inspire childishness.

He didn’t really like travel, of course. He liked the idea of travel, and the memory of travel, but not travel itself.