Tracy Chapman Quotes

I want to get away, I want to fly away. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

A man today never feels so alive as when he is hurtling from one point to another on the azimuth.

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

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.

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 am a voyager - and the voyage cannot mean that I stay at home.

For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.

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.

It's great to just disappear, grab a suitcase, switch the answering machine on and just go somewhere else.

Either the car is stationary, or it's on the move.

I see my path, but I don't know where it leads. Not knowing where I'm going is what inspires me to travel it.

I haven't found anywhere in the world where I want to be all the time. The best of my life is the moving. I look forward to going.

Since I was 19, I've always gone where there was a reason to be. Maybe I'll be lucky and there'll be a reason to go somewhere tropical for a while.

The journey is my home.

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

Wherever I am in the world, if I get free time when I'm filming I always hire a car, take to the road, drive for miles and explore.

Travel is the frivolous part of serious lives, and the serious part of frivolous ones.

A good traveller is one who does not know where he is going to, and a perfect traveller does not know where he came from.

Hey sky, take off your hat, I'm on my way!

When I travel, I just take what I need and I run. I always have my briefcase stuffed with work, even when I go on a holiday.

I am getting so far out one day I won't come back at all.

Everything in life is somewhere else, and you get there in a car.

Go! Go! Go! It makes no difference where, just so you go! Go! Go! Remember, at the first opportunity, go.

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.

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