Quotes About Exploration

I've spent quite a bit of time in East Africa.

Charles Darwin sailed around the world for two years on the 'Beagle,' and he had quite a bit of interest in things like the iguanas of the Galapagos, even though they were primitive compared to your average Englishman.

I play guitar quite a bit, because I'm always in search of something. I don't play to jam, but because I'm fishing. I'm looking for something, that I hope you can never find. If I do find it, I'm afraid I won't have a need to do this any more.

My dad builds houses, and, for the earlier portion of my life anyway, we moved around quite a bit. It took us to some just really amazing places.

I travel quite a bit.

Since leaving 'Hollyoaks', I've moved down to London and I've been auditioning here quite a lot.

I like France quite a lot, and I like Italy.

I'm in a position to do exactly what I want. I travel quite a lot. I read prodigiously. I go to the theater, to concerts. London is a wonderful city to live in.

Sometimes I do that quite a lot, go back and forth a lot between ideas. Try things out.

I need quite a lot going on, so a perfect holiday for me is one in a cooler climate with wonderful scenery, animals or great architecture.

Most pianists listen to about four or five different piano players before they call it quits and say, 'Okay, I've got my thing together.' Herbie Hancock, McCoy Tyner, Bill Evans, Keith Jarrett and maybe Chick Corea. Or maybe before that, Oscar Peterson.

I'm going to do whatever interests me. Look, writing 'Rabbit Hole' came out of an interest in diversifying my portfolio, frankly.

I'm a total nonconformist; for me, it's about going down rabbit holes.

The human race may be the only intelligent beings in the galaxy.

I've flown in an international balloon race. I've piloted my own plane. I've ridden to the hounds. I've done a lot of exciting things.

I do not want to continue cycling until I am 35. I want to make something else out of my life, too. There are other things besides a bike and racing.

I found my interest lapse in both acting and racing.

Once I decided to retire from bikes, there was no thought to go racing again. I wanted to have a full year off and maybe even see the world a bit.

New nemeses keep racing fresh, but I also find challenge in going longer, with only the distance as foe. I run my first 50-mile race, journey across the Grand Canyon and back, circumnavigate Mount St. Helens.

I grew up with a brother racing dirt bikes and me riding my pony around, trying to see what the boys were up to.

If you go on a journey to Mars and get into deep space, there is several hundred times, maybe 300 times the radiation.

Mars does not have an atmosphere and does not have a magnetic field today, so the planet doesn't have the protection from radiation that our atmosphere and magnetic fields provide us on Earth.

I think every time, before we do an album, we have a discussion where we sort of consider the idea of doing something radically different.

I like so many different kinds of music just because all I did was listen to the radio as a kid.