James Taylor Quotes

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.

I'd love to go to a remote part of the world or maroon myself on a tropical island, and shoot the whole thing myself. I've always adventured with other people and I'd like to spend some time completely on my own.

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

The journey is my home.

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

My address is like my shoes. It travels with me wherever I go.

The old hunger for voyages fed at his heart....To go alone...into strange cities; to meet strange people and to pass again before they could know him; to wander, like his own legend, across the earth--it seemed to him there could be no better thing than that.

The great home of the soul is 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.

When you make a break for freedom you don't necessarily find company on the way.

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

She would not exchange her solitude for anything. Never again to be forced to move to the rhythms of others.

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

He travels the fastest who travels alone.

My experience of ships is that on them one makes an interesting discovery about the world. One finds one can do without it completely.

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

That's what I liked about hitch-hiking. If a crowd wasn't big enough, I kept walkin.'

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.

I'm not afraid of my own company. I was made to be 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.

Every time I took a long leave from home, I felt as if I were going to conquer the world. Or rather, take possession of what is my birthright, my inheritance.

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 grew up in the middle of everything. I walked the streets alone, I rode the trains alone, I came home at three in the morning alone; that was what I did.

If I'm free, it's because I'm always running.