Quotes About Discovery

This is why I belong, and why I believe. I commend to all this same search for happiness and for the truth.

Space is going to be commonplace.

I hope I could spend the rest of my life learning and communicating.

Communicating with a man is a very new experience for me.

I was actually a communications major and had never done design.

I was discovered at 16, so all I've done is be a communicator and an entertainer all my life, and my energy is who I am in real life.

I always compare human beings to animals. It's a nice way to figure out who they are.

I have always been drawn to coming-of-age stories and books and movies featuring compelling young characters.

I sang a lot as a little girl and entered competitions. I loved singing in choirs, but it was as I got older that I really found my voice.

I searched so hard for a part that was so complex.

You never know what you're going to learn from which pieces and which composers and colleagues are going to influence that thing you think you know.

The more that you reveal and the more you comprehend, the less scary it gets. That's sort of the H.P. Lovecraft, Clive Barker approach.

I got to Brighton in the late 90s and discovered samplers. Suddenly, I could be my own band with a guitar and sampler, getting my drums in charity shop records. It was better than bashing around in someone's basement, trying to compromise ideas.

The thing that changed everything for me was the Firefox browser. I was pretty bad when it came to computers - I didn't know how powerful the internet could be until I discovered tabbed browsing.

Africa was the most exotic place I could conceive of - the end of the world - and I knew I would go there one day.

Boredom is a concept that I don't understand.

Seriously. I'm not very bright, and it takes a lot for me to get a concept - to really get a concept. To get it enough that it becomes part of me. But when it happens I get real excited about it.

But so far as countries are concerned, I don't go to a place to see what's there, but who is there.

When I was 15, I did not know nothing about what concerned the world of music.

The first concert I saw was Cheryl Wheeler.

Maybe you're going to a concert thinking you're not going to hear anything but music. But you may walk away from there with an answer to a problem that you're carrying around with you that you didn't think you were going to hear about.

I had a couple CDs. But I never had that first concert experience, that first record thing.

My first concert was Third Eye Blind.

I went to a Buddy Guy concert when I was, like, seven years old.