Quotes About Exploration

I wouldn't be myself if I weren't always trying to be someone else. I only have so much time on this earth and I want to be as many people as possible.

I travel because I want to know. Books and documentaries will only get you so far. If you want to know, you will have to go.

Learning what you don't want to do is pretty valuable, it may be as valuable as figuring out what it is you do want to do.

If you're open to it, New Orleans will teach you about yourself, but if you want to hide from who you really are, the city will help you do that, too.

The best thing about the term 'performance artist' is that it includes just about everything you might want to do.

It's like if you're an astronaut and you've been to the moon, what do you want to do with the rest of your life?

I love to fantasize still, as I did as a little boy. If I see a movie, I want to fantasize about what it's all about.

It's an improvisation on a theme. You know where you want to go, but you don't know how to get there. It's not linear.

Some kids don't want to be organized all the time. They want to let their imaginations run; they want to see where a stream of water takes them.

Everything has an educational value if you look for it. But it's the fun I want to get across.

It's definitely fun to play something you're not, which is always a good time. Who doesn't want to get to act like a jerk or a douche, every now and then?

A man who wants the truth becomes a scientist; a man who wants to give free play to his subjectivity may become a writer; but what should a man do who wants something in between?

While there's time left, I want to do different kinds of things.

I'm open to all the elements, I'm definitely ready to take anything on. But I don't want to jump too far into the deep end.

But as a young kid, I never did, really have an ambition to be a farmer. I never thought, gee, I would like to farm, and I want to raise these crops. I didn't quite know what I wanted to do.

But at this phase of my life, I want to write and not have to think about whether a song is going to be a hit. I want to explore the music that inspires me, and I don't want to ape myself.

You get so used to a world that you complain, but never actually want anything different. Why crave the unfamiliar?

When you're dealing with something sensitive, which is about culture, and its effect on a generation, you don't want any stones not to be turned over.

Everybody's talking about people breaking into houses but there are more people in the world who want to break out of houses.

I think the radio is kind of cool, because you're really free to do whatever you want, because you can go into another world. Whereas in TV, you have to make that world.

I love writing fiction - you can take just what you want from a place, and leave the rest.

No one has ever described the place where I have just arrived: this is the emotion that makes me want to travel. It is one of the greatest reasons to go anywhere.

I wake up thinking: What am I reading? What will I read next? I'm terrified that I'll run out, that I will read through all I want to, and be forced to learn wildflowers at last, to keep awake.

Man by nature wants to know.