Quotes About Adventure

It's really fun to just get on a bike and just go and, I guess in a way, to be able to leave the tour and not be confined and all that kind of stuff.

With the digital space, you can see whatever you want in the confines of your home.

New York was very congenial to me when I was young, like most people. I met my comrades in arms and partied hard. It's the way it should be, and then you get sick of it.

I started to write my songs when I was 15 and living in the Congo.

Moving to Dubai at age 9 and then the Congo, they were two completely opposite countries. But that brought me to music and taught me things that I never would have learned otherwise. And it was always about the rhythm in those two countries - that's why I love them.

There are so many fun things that you live that you can write about and people of all ages can connect to.

I didn't want to go see mountainous areas as a kid - I wanted to be around town, around New York, around Connecticut.

I grew up in Connecticut - it was really charming, but when I was younger, all I wanted was to get out.

I'm pretty much a London boy, and it was a big enough city to try and conquer.

If I have a combination of calm and fear, I access mental states way beyond normal consciousness. That's why I choose to do scary things.

When I do stuff where death could be a real consequence, it makes me want to live right.

It's just like my dream to shoot things with no consequences.

All of the good things that surround art - you have to embrace the idea that it could be a complete disaster. I think that's what gives it its artistic sparkle is that it really could crash and burn at any moment because you're going out on a limb and being very personal.

It comes down to building your own world out here on the road. It's who you surround yourself with. My band and crew are really positive guys.

The older I get and the longer I live in New York City, the more I have the desire to go elsewhere and be surrounded by nature.

I don't use cages - I've been surrounded by 150 to 200 sharks, not once ever been close to being bitten.

Some of the furor that surrounded a Harry Potter publication was fun.

Growing up in England, I was constantly surrounded by the Arthurian legend.

The first comic book I ever read was an issue of 'Legion of Super-Heroes' where the earth was surrounded by all of these chains. I remember the cover; I got it at a birthday party.

I'll always feel most comfortable in khaki surrounded by animals, but it is really fun to try different styles.

The great thing is to have been surrounded by stories all my life.

I went to Cyprus with a friend and her family when we were about 16. She was riding on the back of a scooter we'd hired when we got surrounded by local boys on their scooters down a dark country lane. They tried to get us to pull over.

The idea in The Man that Would Be King was that the music should recreate all that majestic surrounding and emphasize the adventure, but also speak about the frustration or, rather said, the curse of both protagonists, even before happened what happens them.

Like anyone who goes to college, you're leaving a familiar surrounding and a comfortable environment and your friends and everything, and you're starting fresh. It can be pretty daunting.