Elias Quotes

My hair is way, way long. I've hitchhiked across the country a zillion times. I've ridden in every car. I was never a hippie. It takes more than long hair.

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'm going to be on the road for the rest of my life.

I tramped. When I was on the freight trains, I wasn't looking for work. I was looking to go from place to place without paying any money.

Besides, I'm a gypsy at heart and I like to travel around.

I had done a fair bit of traveling during the holidays in my school days with my guitar and discovered that I could live on it. Admittedly, I traveled with a sleeping bag but I could always find somewhere to lay my head.

Once more I am a wanderer, a pilgrim, through the world. But what else are you?

The thing is, I'm a gypsy; I love travelling!

I like to travel. I love touring, I love playing.

I do love traveling, so I've been able to travel a lot.

When I was 19 years old, I hitchhiked across the country to San Francisco.

There is no situation like the open road, and seeing things completely afresh. I'm used to traveling. It's not a question of meeting or seeing new faces particularly, or hearing new stories, but of looking at life in a different way. It's the curtain coming up on another act.

Traveling is one of my great passions and something I do a lot of.

Being on the road is kind of lonely.

When you're on a road trip, anything goes.

It seems effortless and fun, and obviously it's hard work, but we love road life.

When people ask me where I live, I say I live mainly on the road.

We would say we would play every pay toilet and use our own change. Across America and across the world, we just kept going and going.

I'm always ready to go back on the road.

I will travel a lot after my career.

If I'm off the road, I get itchy feet. It's my work, my job.

I hitchhiked to L.A. with $100 and a keyboard.

I like touring; I live on the road, more or less.

I actually don't live anywhere. I live on the road.

Being on the road is very inspiring.