Quotes About Exploration

It's just fantastic to go out and meet people in the world and get to really remote places.

I know that not many people can go to the Marshall Islands. It is really one of the most remote places on earth.

I'm most fascinated by remote places and lonely islands, which are also the hardest places to reach.

We shall have to remove everything that strangles artistic and scientific creativeness.

I could never really imagine myself doing one thing, and I'm pretty sure that I'll end up doing four or five different things. I want to be a Renaissance woman. I want to paint, and I want to write, and I want to act, and I want to just do everything.

It'd be nice to be what they call a Renaissance man.

Our culture has kind of let the concept of the Renaissance Man die out. We don't really tell the kids that it's okay to bounce around the world, work odd jobs, and do six different things.

As a kid, I loved the idea of alternate possibilities, roads not taken, that sort of thing - and I think seeing the 'Adventure Time' universe rendered by the artists in those stories will scratch that same itch really well.

While I'm a big fan of science fiction, especially as rendered in expensive Hollywood blockbusters, it's the real universe that calls to me.

Some days you wake up and don't realize where you're at and you go, 'What the hell am I doing here?' That happened in a couple of cities, places. Reno, some places overseas.

I'd like to record somewhere really different. Rent a really big house and get a mobile in and set up in the dining room. Maybe New England; it'd be nice in September or October.

In Paris, I rent a bike in the street and cycle around, and in L.A. I live up in the hills so I go hiking a lot.

We grew up in Alaska and will rep The North Face all day long.

There are fewer roles, and I've done so many things already that I don't want to repeat, so to find something you haven't done is harder. I don't want to play a country singer again.

I'd like to do a lot of different stuff. I think it's important as a creative person to keep challenging yourself and keep doing new stuff. If you end up trying to repeat yourself it's death. It just becomes boring and takes the passion out of it. You gotta find stories and characters that you really want to hang out with.

Because I've done so many different roles, I don't want to repeat myself. It's getting harder and harder to find something interesting. You never know - I might never make a film again.

I always make a point to make my records different. Let's say I have a record that's influenced by hip-hop in an abstract way; for the next record, I'd try not to do that. They are all connected in a personal way but it's important not to repeat myself, because then I can always learn something about myself through my work.

We all want to not repeat ourselves constantly, and explore the limits of our capabilities.

I don't like to get bored and don't like to repeat myself.

I've had to keep exploring different ways of presenting the music so I don't repeat myself.

The score I always have on heavy repeat is 'Raiders Of The Lost Ark!'

Writing is my way of diving deep into an issue. My approach is to watch, read and listen - sometimes for years - in order to grasp the dynamics, resistance and patterns of thought that repeat and impede progress and breakthrough.

I do not want to repeat myself. I want to reach for something I've never attained. This is the excitement of art.

I always want to do things that really have to be done, something that's a challenge - and I'm trying not to repeat myself.