Tom Petty Quotes

We're on a road to nowhere, come on inside. Takin' that ride to nowhere, we'll take that ride. I'm feelin' okay this mornin', and you know, we're on the road to paradise, here we go, here we go.

I don't know where we're going or how we'll get there, but when we get there we'll be there - and that's something, even if it's nothing.

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.

'Gonzo' means taking an unknown thing to an unknown place for a known purpose. But sometimes we're lost in an unknown place for no known purpose.

I never know where I am going, though. That is part of what makes it so wonderful. And after all, who does?

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.

I guess I can go anywhere I want. If only I knew where to go.

People want to know where I'm going, and I just don't ever know.

Where we are going, I don't know. It doesn't seem to be the place that is important but the steps in between.

The Road goes ever on and on Down from the door where it began. Now far ahead the Road has gone, And I must follow, if I can, Pursuing it with eager feet, Until it joins some larger way Where many paths and errands meet. And whither then? I cannot say

We can identify with Frodo and Sam, setting off not knowing quite where they are going and what they are to do.

Tourists don't know where they've been, travelers don't know where they're going.

I like the idea of the adventurer's spirit. I think that is very much what a man searches for, in a certain way.

Hitchhiking was such a pure form of existence. You'd wake up in the morning, and you'd have no idea what your day was going to be. And that's something I've never been able to shake. I loved that.

When I was 19 years old, I hitchhiked across the country to San Francisco.

Not all those who wander are lost.

A journey is a person in itself; no two are alike. And all plans, safeguards, policing, and coercion are fruitless. We find that after years of struggle that we do not take a trip; a trip takes us.

There is no certainty; there is only adventure.

I don't know where I'm going to be in three years. Because I have the feeling that the future is so full of possibilities, to stop being an actress, to do something else... for me, the future is just a huge bunch of discoveries.

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.

I have wandered all my life, and I have also traveled; the difference between the two being this, that we wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment.

Oh, my ways are strange ways and new ways and old ways, And deep ways and steep ways and high ways and low, I'm at home and at ease on a track that I know not, And restless and lost on a road that I know.

In the end, what I'm trying to say as a person who does all this travel and fashions these images is that you arrive at an approximate location but never one destination.

Being on the road is very inspiring.

I would love to do something that takes me on an adventure. I really want to do it all.