Quotes About Exploration

I want to find material that piques my interest, keeps me outside the box and challenges me.

I was born outside Kennedy Space Center.

There's so much to do in Paducah, Kentucky... Paducah's pretty cool, man.

There is credible evidence that a Chinese fleet went as far as the coast of Africa, in present-day Kenya. It was the largest maritime fleet in the world, under the command of Zheng He, a favorite of the emperor.

I was a safari guide in the 1980s in Kenya.

I have been lucky enough to go to all sorts of places - diving in Malaysia, snorkelling with wild turtles in Cuba and dolphin-spotting in Kenya.

That's what I liked about hitch-hiking. If a crowd wasn't big enough, I kept walkin.'

What drove me and kept me going over the decades? If I had to use a single word, it would be 'curiosity.'

Do what you haven't done is the key, I think.

I would like to play with electronic keyboards again.

I felt that by the late '90s, I'd gone as far as I could with the keyboard.

Diversification and globalization are the keys to the future.

I'm usually writing in English, and then I'll get the hankering to change channels. And usually I'll do that when I want to try a whole new set of keys, like musical keys.

I got a real kick when a series was set in the court of Kublai Khan or in Nero's Rome.

You get a different kick out of all aspects of filmmaking.

I'll try anything. What are they gonna do, kick me out of show business?

The Clash were the first big love of my life. Lyrically, they inspired me to get out, explore life, and maybe kick some doors down.

I am a kid in the dressing-up box at heart.

As a kid I was creative.

I have lots of girlfriends - all over the country! You think I'm kidding? I'm dead serious. Girlfriends everywhere.

Adults are always asking kids what they want to be when they grow up because they are looking for ideas.

Most kids probably dream of becoming an astronaut. I was just the one that never grew out of it.

Comfort is the killer of creativity.

I think to stay in one sound is a career killer.