Nelly Furtado Quotes

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.

If they will let me go, I would leave Israel immediately. I would like to see the world, to exercise my freedom.

Many a boomerang does not return but chooses freedom instead.

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.

It should not be denied... that being footloose has always exhilarated us. It is associated in our minds with escape from history and oppression and law and irksome obligations, with absolute freedom, and the road has always led West.

I was not content at home. . . I wanted to live like a colorful butterfly in the sun.

A nomad I was even when I was very small and would stare at the road, that white spellbinding road headed straight for the unknown ... a nomad I will remain for life, in love with distant and uncharted places.

Oh to follow the road that leads away from everything, without anguish, death, winter waiting along it with their eyes open through the dew.

I'd stare up at the sky and just dream a lot. Still do. I dreamed that I didn't belong here, that I was going to travel a lot.

Where ever I am I always find myself looking out the window wishing I was somewhere else.

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 would like to spend the whole of my life traveling, if I could anywhere borrow another life to spend at home.

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.

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

I am restless. I don't mind leaving this comfortable, static life. I could live a year on my own in a remote village.

I love traveling. I love just going about on my own, feeling I have no roots.

I left home when I was 16 because I was looking for adventure.

I need this wild life, this freedom.

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

My life is the road, man. I need to keep moving.

When I was in school, I used to look out the window and see the big red double-deck buses driving by. It just looked so free.

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.

Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty - his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.

Rebellion is what you make of it. When you've been on a tour bus for two months straight, and then you get in your car and drive wherever you want, that can feel rebellious.

Before I moved to the city I spent every Saturday sitting in church wishing I could be living on my own, doing what I wanted.