Quotes About Discovery

My mother is a poet/novelist, and my father was a pianist and cook. Both artists who colored my personality and brain in ways I'm still discovering!

Sheets of sound. Well, that was when I got tired of certain modulations. Like when you want to get back to C, and you've got to go to D and then G and then C. I was fooling around with the piano, and I figured out some other way to do it.

I was two and a half when I first climbed up and sat at a piano.

I'm a first - I was the first person in my family born in the United States. My mom is from Croatia, and my dad is from Iran. They met at music school in Belgium. I grew up as a pianist. I was really interested in piano and sort of discovered that I was a writer when I was about 13 and started writing.

When I was 5 or 6, I was messing around with the piano, and I listened to everything from Chopin to boogie-woogie.

My mom says that she caught me one day in front of the TV watching opera. I was trying to sing back the opera. She saw that I really liked music, and so she put me in piano lessons when I was about three years old.

Pablo Picasso first entered my consciousness when I was a boy of about eight years old.

I always loved rock guitar. I just never put it together that that's what I'd end up doing. I had no aspirations to be a musician, but I picked up a guitar for two seconds and haven't put it down since.

I never picked a bass up before Sabbath started.

I would say Will came at a time in my life where he saw beauty in me that I didn't see in myself at the time. And, you know, he saw a diamond in the rough and kind of, picked me up and blew off all the dust and said, 'I'm telling you, I'm going to make you shine, girl.'

People are getting picked up off the street and getting a show, and it's because we're not using the people that are trying to be entertainers - use more of them.

I always knew I was going to make a record called 'The Foundling.' Since I picked up a guitar, I knew it.

I picked up photography in high school.

The first time I picked up a law book, it was like I had done it all my life. There was just something that happened to me when I did that, and I realized there was a hidden gift there I didn't know I had.

It wasn't until high school that I realized Avenged Sevenfold was picking up locally.

I do like going out and finding free food. I've done it since I was a child. Fishing prawns and shrimps from the sea is wonderful, as is picking blackberries, sloes and mushrooms. Having a guide while out looking for mushrooms is really important, though, as picking the wrong type can be quite dangerous.

As I got older, I'd say probably when I got to, like, seventh or eighth grade, I was living in Atlanta, Georgia at the time, and I went for an open call for an agent, a local agent out there, a woman named Joy Purvis, and she ended up picking me up.

I love going into junk shops, picking up something that looks like it's got a bit of history to it, then sanding it down and reviving it.

As the artist picks his way along, rejecting and accepting as he goes, certain patterns of enquiry emerge.

It's important to read as much as you can because you never know when you will find the best script that you want to do next. I'm always quite picky in what I read and what I go for.

I have likened writing a novel to going on a journey, with some notion of the destination I will arrive at, but not the whole picture - which emerges gradually as a series of revelations, as the journey goes along.

The thing about science is that it's an accurate picture of the world.

My mother took my picture to a model agency and the rest is history.

We're trying to get to the bottom of where the picture came from, and we're trying to get to the bottom of what it's of and who it's of.