Frances Beinecke Quotes

Each time I hit the road to gig, it still feels like I'm going to summer camp.

There's really only three things you can write music about: girls, cars and surfing.

For years I drove cross-country, back and forth a dozen times, sometimes on book tour, sometimes just to get lost and found.

A few years ago, I bought an old red bicycle with the words Free Spirit written across its side - which is exactly what I felt like when I rode it down the street in a tie-dyed dress.

I never subscribe to the stay-at-home policy. I'm not sick of the road or sick of eating in good restaurants around the country. I like to travel.

It's interesting because a lot of my 16-year-old kids' friends know me from 'Wedding Crashers,' and not so much Bond. My kids have a good laugh. I was 20 then. The look I had then was the look that a lot of their friends are assuming now. They think it's cool. What goes around comes around.

I love being on the road, I love playing.

As a kid, I did want to be an old-timer, since they were the ones with the big stories and the cool clothes. I wanted to go there. Now, I guess I want to bring that with me and go back in time.

I've been on every interstate highway in the lower forty-eight states by now, and I never get tired of the view.

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

I've been a road-rat since I got my driver's licence at 16, so I've probably gone across America 20 times.

When me and my brother Eagle-Eye were kids, life was about hitting the road, getting on the bus. We loved it.

In America, people of a certain age ask, 'Where were you when Kennedy was shot?' In my house you were more likely to be asked, 'Where were you when you first read 'The Catcher In The Rye?'

From a very early age, I was in tune with pop radio, and most of this listening was done driving. We had an old '67 or '65 Buick LeSabre, and whenever we would drive around, I would actually stick my head right against the speakers in the back and sing along to the music.

I keep thinking I'm going to miss it back in Los Angeles. But I don't. The only thing I miss is driving out in the desert in the Southwest.

To people of my generation, the picture show was really another dimension - sensual, whimsical. No uniforms or collective rites, but a place where little boys like me could laugh and feel free.

I'm still good for hitting the road. I'll be doing that a fair bit.

I'm a big road trip guy. I'm the guy who gets in the RV and drives across country. And when you do that, you really get to see small-town America.

Boy George was only 7 years old when I was hot in '68.

I like being in the '60s.

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

You'll always remember your first car and the memories that come with it - that sense of adventure!

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.

Every young man's best purchase is his first car, which spells freedom. My first one was a '70 Camaro, springtime gold-over-saddle, a 307 with Hi-jackers and chrome reverse mags.

When you are travelling, there's romance, and there's music.