Travie McCoy Quotes

My biggest dream was to get out of Michigan - to discover life beyond the Sacred Heart Convent.

I never thought I would see the outside of Chicago.

For West is where we all plan to go some day. It is where you go when the land gives out and the old-field pines encroach. It is where you go when you get the letter saying: Flee, all is discovered. It is where you go when you look down at the blade in your hand and the blood on it. It is where you go when you are told that you are a bubble on the tide of empire. It is where you go when you hear that thar's gold in them-thar hills. It is where you go to grow up with the country. It is where you go to spend your old age. Or it is just where you go.

The world is before you and you need not take it or leave it as it was when you came in.

Life is elsewhere. Cross frontiers. Fly away.

The wide world is all about you: you can fence yourselves in, but you cannot forever fence it out.

I wanted to live the life, a different life. I didn't want to go to the same place every day and see the same people and do the same job. I wanted interesting challenges.

I have a thing for doors. I always think of them as a threshold to something new.

Every day you wake up is an opportunity to go beyond, and that 's why I let my band go right now. For the first time in my life I'm just roaming around, vagabonding.

The West has always been the epicentre of possibility. One of the ways we forge against mortality is to head west. It's to do with catching the sun before it slips behind the horizon.

When you're travelling, you are what you are right there and then. People don't have your past to hold against you. No yesterdays on the road.

Today, I honor the memory of those brave settlers of Oregon …. Some instinct drew them here, a fate a pulling, a desire for deep and lasting change in their lives. They embraced that change. They sought it out. Theirs was a quest for new horizons, for new beginnings. For a new homeland. They rode. They walked. They starved. They foraged. And they died. But they kept their eyes westward. They gave us Oregon.

Contrary to popular belief, the outskirts are not where the world ends - they are precisely where it begins to unfurl.

Out here, everything is bigger. You see strange things, and that changes you.

Life is not shrinking for me; it's morphing into a whole new world of possibilities.

A woman can walk miles without making one single step forward. As a child born in a harem, I instinctively knew that to live is to open closed doors. To live is to look outside. To live is to step out. Life is trespassing.

I went to Paris, I went to France, I went to England, I went to Ireland. In my mind, I can go wherever I wanted to go. I left death row every day.

If you are open-minded and you let the universe come in, you never know where things might go.

Doing the same thing over and over again can be boring, I want to explore as much as I can.

Also, this is our lives for a huge part of the year and we did not want to be in prison, 24/7. It was too oppressive. So, we were like, "How can we get out? Let's see their lives, a little bit." That was really fun.

Come with me, ladies and gentlemen who are in any wise weary of London: come with me: and those that tire at all of the world we know: for we have new worlds here.

The shell must break before the bird can fly.

Don't settle down and sit in one place. Move around, be nomadic, make each day a new horizon.

So I cut off my hair and I rode straight away, to the wild unknown country where I could not go wrong.