Quotes About Discovery

People didn't know that I existed before 'Purpose.'

There's a side of me vocally that people didn't know existed. I had to get it out of me.

We can't terraform yet, but we know it exists.

Travel at least erodes some of the narrowness that exists in each of us.

You can't get tired of something you don't know exists.

While we are examining into everything we sometimes find truth where we least expected it.

We can look out on an alien landscape that no one has seen before and find it beautiful.

What I try to do is find a language for life.

Eminem was someone that I discovered I liked, largely because of his relationship to language and to his mother.

I came to New York late; I was already past 30.

I'm a late bloomer. It's taken me a long time to find my voice, and I think all the records I've made over the years, I was finding my voice, and that's part of the process.

I'm a late bloomer.

I'm a late bloomer in music.

People like Beck and Shawn Colvin are some of the people I listen to lately.

Being African didn't mean anything to me until later in my life.

I remember asking my mum when I was about 13, 'Why are my brothers and sister so much older than me?' And she just said, 'You were a mistake.' And I laughed.

If you want to discover how to make children laugh - and I truly believe all adults should, because children need laughter - the best place to start is with your own childhood.

My real name is Lauren.

My father was a lawyer and to my best knowledge nobody in my family before had interest in science.

The longer you are in a place, the more you get under its layers.

Everybody has layers.

I just want to stay creative, share my ideas and see where it all leads.

When I write a book, I don't have an idea of what I'm doing. I just go where it leads.

Everything is a learning experience for me.