Benji Madden Quotes

Ah! Young people, travel if you can, and if you cannot - travel all the same!

I was a college dropout, hitchhiking across the Midwest. That was part of the old, adventurous spirit.

The thing about travelling is that you work hard and play hard, but you can do all those things without your parents knowing.

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

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.

At 17, I traveled to Mexico in a lemon yellow Mustang and saved money by bunking down in cheap, cockroach-infested flophouses. In my early 20s, I went on to thumb rides through Europe, readily sleeping in train stations, my backpack as a pillow. Once I even hunkered down for a night on a sidewalk grate - for warmth - in Paris.

If you think about America, it is about getting your backpack on and heading out.

I am living out my adolescent dream of travel and adventure.

I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there I could best see the moonlight amid the mountains. I do not wish to go below now.

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

I love traveling. I've been doing it since I was 16.

I travel on my own and try to - I float along to music.

Outside your door, the world is waiting. Inside your heart, a voice is calling. The four corners of the world are watching. So travel, daughter, travel. Go get it, girl.

Strong and content I travel the open road.

Life on the open road is liberty... to be alone, to have few needs, to be unknown, everywhere a foreigner and at home, and to walk grandly and solitarily in conquest of the world.

One of the pleasantest things in the world is going on a journey; I can enjoy society in a room; but out of doors, nature is company enough for me. I am then never less alone than when alone.

Afoot and lighthearted I take to the open road, healthy, free, the world before me.

I had the radio on, I was driving. Trees flew by, me and Del were singing, Little Runaway, I was flying.

Like love, travel makes you innocent again.

Travel is never a matter of money but of courage. I spent a large part of my youth traveling the world as a hippie. And what money did I have then? None. I barely had enough to pay for my fare. But I still consider those to have been the best years of my youth. The great lessons I learned has been precisely those that my journeys had taught me.

I like to move around. I travel. I've driven across country by myself.

Those who would see wonderful things must often be ready to travel alone.

I’m not a woman you bring home to Mother, pick out china patterns with, or Mary forefend, breed. I’ve seen a chunk of the universe, true, but there’s still so much more to see. I doubt I’ll ever cure this wanderlust, and I’m content with dedicating my life to failing to sate it... He’s never going to sit at my feet and write me poems, which is good because I hate poetry, except dirty ones that rhyme.