Quotes About Exploration

I enjoy thinking myself into other times and places. I don't like some of the conventions of the 'historical novel', but I think there's a way of doing it that has a lot of merit.

I just was mesmerized by all of this life everywhere I looked. And so I wanted to be a marine biologist.

It's quite fun to mess with the human voice. It's quite special in the sense that the voice is the #1 instrument that we can connect with; it doesn't sound too alien. I think that's the key is to find the line between sounding human and sounding robotic. That's an area that I like to explore a lot.

A two-and-a-half-year-old is pretty experienced at making a mess, anyway.

I'm fascinated with the electronic devices that we can mess around with.

The best working experiences I've had are with directors who want to create with you while you're on set. I prefer a much freer environment. That's why I'm always trying to mess things up, just to know that I can!

Really, I just sit down, mess around, and play with sounds.

I had lots of fun; I was in the boy scouts, I went camping. I just used to mess around like a normal kid.

I'm not really interested in people. I just like messing around in cars.

The more I got into playing guitar, the more I enjoyed music, and the broader my listening became. The instrument itself became important to me, and I started messing around with classical guitar and took classical lessons.

And I like messing around in the engine room of music. Seeing what happens in the rhythm section area.

I just love being in the studio, and that's kind of what I do when I'm not on the road. I'm just in the studio messing with stuff, and I love playing all the instruments.

A sense of play is important when I'm writing, and so messing around with, say, a magic routine can feel like play, at least initially.

On Christmas, when I was 13, my mom got me my first laptop. I downloaded it, FruityLoops, cause I had heard about it, and started messing around.

When we first started out, we had no idea what metal music was all about. But now we listen to everything from cute songs to all sorts of metal music.

Give metal a chance!

I was in a rock band; I was my own folk singer; I was in a death metal band for a very short time; I was in a cover band, a jazz band, a blues band. I was in a gospel choir.

We didn't say, 'Hey, we're gonna pick a bunch of cover songs,' or, 'We're gonna write an original song that has to sound like this, because we're a metal band, so we're gonna cover some metal songs.' We did the opposite. We just said, 'We're gonna have fun with these songs, and we're gonna try different things.'

Scientists have to have a metaphor. All scientists start with imagination.

I know that I'm going to die and that you're going to die. I can't do anything about that. But I can explore it through a metaphor and make a kind of funny, dark story about it, and in doing so, really exhaust and research as many aspects of it as I can imagine. And in a way, that does give me some closure.

My books tend to have a lot of questions in them, and they tend to avoid black and white, for lack of a better metaphor.

Science fiction has always used metaphors and disguises, talking about alien civilizations or the future.

I've got deeper journeys to take. Metaphysical journeys. Journeys to see Christ. Shaman journeys. It's what I've been elected by God to do.

I wanted to be a meteorologist. I wanted to be a marine biologist.