My suitcase must absolutely contain my iPod.

Like most artists, I live out of a suitcase.

I travel a lot. If you look at my suitcase, everything is extremely well-packed and well-folded; people who travel with me are impressed at how organized I am. Some would refer to me as a maniac for this.

I am Mother Jones. The Government can't take my life and you can't take my arm, but you can take my suitcase.

The worst gift that I ever gave a girl was a suitcase for Christmas. As in, 'I can't think of anything to give you, but here's a new suitcase.' Afterward, I was like, 'What were you thinking, idiot?'

Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had longer ways to go. But no matter, the road is life.

Until I was 42, I could fit everything that I owned into two suitcases.

Every time I travel, I'm in a rage until I reach my destination. I find myself shouting at suitcases, as if it's their fault that I'm an inefficient packer. I've also learnt that whenever you despair of humanity and start thinking that you hate people - as I frequently do - you only have to travel to realise that people are basically all right.

I love living on the road; I live out of a suitcase.

The greatest fear that haunts this city is a suitcase bomb, nuclear or germ. Many people carry small gas masks. The masses here seem to be resigned to the inevitable, believing an attack of major proportions will happen.

In 1976, Jimmy Carter - peanut farmer; carried his own suitcase, imagine that - somewhat tapped America's durable but shallow reservoir of populism. By 1980, ordinariness in high office had lost its allure.

I used to bodyguard for Muhammad Ali, Leon Spinks, Sugar Ray Leonard. I used to bodyguard a lot of diamond merchants; I would travel with a suitcase full of diamonds and take them from point A to point B. My reputation grew because I was a professional. I did my job, and I was courteous - a no-nonsense guy.

I feel sorry for kids these days. They get so much homework. Remember the days when we put a belt around our two books and carried them home? Now they're dragging a suitcase. They have school all day, then homework from six until eleven. There's no time left to be creative.

I had a boom box, but I didn't go too far with it because I had a really, really big one. It was like the size of a suitcase, and I was just a little kid.

But 17 years ago, I arrived at CNN with a suitcase, with my bicycle, and with about 100 dollars.

We couldn't afford anything. Suitcase, clothes, everything, Barellan people bought for me.

After living out of a suitcase for years, it's a feeling of peace to wake up in the night and know where I am.

My 20s were totally bonkers. I was living out of a suitcase and burning the candle at both ends. But I tell you - I am totally over it.

What I can't fit into my suitcase is probably something I don't need.

I'll tell you what I love doing more than anything: trying to pack myself in a small suitcase. I can hardly contain myself.