Michelle Phillips Quotes

I've always found a cure for the blues is wandering into something unknown, and resting there, before coming back to whatever weight you were carrying.

There's a lot of stress... but once you get in the car, all that goes out the window.

It was a great escape for me and it was a way to take a break from what was going on in my own world, to go into another world.

Club culture is about leaving your cares behind, and I am trying to create that environment.

Expeditions are escapism. The stuff that we're normally concerned about just doesn't matter out there. Tax returns, gas bill, none of it. Life becomes very simple, it's about moving in a certain direction - north if you're going north - staying warm and not getting eaten. That's it.

There's a lot more responsibility at home, so a tour is like the opposite for me. It's like a breath of fresh air.

I am a control freak, but not when I travel. For some reason when I travel, I am able to surrender more than in my real life. I am able to let go. I think it's why I like it so much.

We just want kids to come to our concert and forget about everything.

Travelling helps me rejuvenate and de-stress.

Football is a great place to get away from things, and going over to Greece was amazing and I've loved it - it is basically getting away from all the talk.

I can't wait to get out of the house. I can't wait to get out of here. I've been telling myself this all week. The 'getting out of here' part is unspecified, though. Maybe I simply want to get away from life

When you're a little kid, you are small, your life is small - and you're terrifically aware of that. But when you read, you can ride Arabian horses across the desert, you can be a dogsledder.

Ever since childhood, when I lived within earshot of the Boston and Maine, I have seldom heard a train go by and not wished I was on it.

I've been able to carve out spaces for myself. At Sundance, I'm in the mountains - my property is private. I get on a horse and ride for three, four hours. Sometimes five. I get lost. But when I'm in, I'm in.

The story of 'Highway' is completely about travel. It is about the fascination of travel to an extent that I don't want to even reach the destination and also being away from society gives you a certain view of the society, so that was the intention of the film.

I think a lot of nice things happen when you're driving, or when you're on a plane, or whatever. There's a certain freedom that comes along with motion.

I really love to ride my motorcycle. When I want to just get away and be by myself and clear my head, that's what I do.

I longed from a tiny child to get away on my own. When I was five, I walked out along the sands from Redcar, nearly all the way to Hartlepool.

One travels to run away from routine, that dreadful routine that kills all imagination and all our capacity for enthusiasm.

I'd love a day devoid of responsibilities. I've often thought about going to a hotel just to have a day away from everything.

After filming, I can't wait to shake off all that '50s primness. I'll go out to a gig and dance ridiculously. I love to lose myself in music. Just letting go - it's dead important.

I love my friends and family, but I also love it when they can't find me and I can spend all day reading or walking all alone, in silence, eight thousand miles away from everyone. All alone and unreachable in a foreign country is one my most favorite possible things to be.

Spring won't let me stay in this house any longer! I must get out and breathe the air deeply again.

The thing I love most about going on vacation is that I get to leave behind any kind of schedule. My entire life is scheduled from morning to night, and when I'm on vacation, there is no schedule.

I need this wild life, this freedom.