Quotes About Exploration

What had been as recently as 2010 a modest gathering of psychonauts and a handful of renegade researchers was now a six-day convention-cum-conference that had drawn more than three thousand people from all over the world to hear researchers from twenty-five countries present their findings.

It gave us permission to try weird shit in cahoots with other people.

I want simply to learn about the world and live freely.

2015 was, like, packed from January. 2016 is simultaneously open and packed - but I'm trying to keep 2016 open as possible so I can do weird, crazy, kooky stuff.

We really have only been observing Neptune with big telescopes since shortly before 1989.

I feel like I have lived all over the world since I get to go everywhere to film.

It's a fascinating area for me, UFOs have occupied a great part of my life since I was very young.

My sincere hope is that 'The Da Vinci Code,' in addition to entertaining people, will serve as an open door to begin their own explorations.

Everything evolves. I'll always sing ranchera, but as an artist, you want to explore, to do the most that you can.

When material comes to me, I don't care where it's coming from. Japan, Singapore, China, Africa... it could be from everywhere. The material should excite me. It's not important where it's coming from.

Singapore has everything under one roof. There is something for everyone, right from my kids to my husband.

Whenever I'm in Singapore, I definitely have to eat some of the local food.

We are rich in the quantity of songs rather than in the quality. The singer has to go through hundreds of compositions before he finds one that really says something.

I'm trying to get an acting gig on 'CSI' or something like that, so we'll see how that works out. I'm a singer, definitely not an actor, so I just follow directions.

It was at Juilliard that I realized that being a singer encompasses so many things that I am interested in. Literature, languages, physics, history, art. You really get to explore so many things.

I'm always looking for overlooked post-Dylan singer-songwriter records from the '70s.

Barriers have been broken: rappers are singing, and singers are rapping. You might catch a rapper on a rock song, a pop artist on a hip-hop song - there are so many different things that are going on today. That is the same way in which we live our lives; we're all over the place. I like to try different things.

I do see myself doing more than just playback singing.

I keep myself open to singing in different genres like classical dance songs, light classical folk, etc. There's so much to learn and I'm glad I'm on the right path.

My other advice is to start writing songs and singing right away.

It was right after I did Piaf, 'La Vie en Rose'. I started to take singing lessons and finding where I could go.

I tried a little of everything when I was little. I tried karate, I tried ballet, I tried piano lessons and singing lessons... I was a pretty normal kid, for the most part.

Every single day, I'm curious about everything. Curiosity is finding answers to things.

What I love about this job is it's literally a different day every single day, isn't it? One day you're a nurse, the next day you're in a band - you can just make it up. I'm just a big kid, and that's really what this job is - just playing dress-up every day.