Quotes About Insight

I've developed a habit of people-watching. In Paris, I love watching all kinds of people walking by from my apartment terrace, and while I'm traveling the world, I enjoy observing all the people in airports.

You know I'm 27, but I've been traveling since I was 16, 17 years old. You see a lot of things, you hear a lot of things, and it definitely matures you a lot faster than it would other people. I think in that case it's definitely made me a stronger person.

There's something exciting about traveling the world and opening up your eyes to what the rest of the world is doing.

I'm a lot less travelled as an adult than I was as a child, but I think living in far flung places gives you a perspective on the world and people that adds flavour to your writing.

I'd never really travelled before, and when we started going places, like Japan, France, Germany and all over Europe, it's been interesting to see how different cultures work. But to be there playing music makes it so much better.

Travelling expands the mind rarely.

Travelling is really great for giving you tons of ideas, but it's really hard to actually record anything on the road.

I bring spiritual books with me while travelling. I like books about thoughts and how you see the world.

I've always thought that travelling every day as a journalist on the Tour's got to be harder than actually racing.

Whenever I write a new song, it always happens when I come back from Europe or Egypt or something like that. It's always from travelling.

I've travelled the world with football, but probably in a privileged way. We've travelled, and travelling means going from an airport to the pitch to the hotel. I haven't really seen or explored things.

I feel travelling by road helps me connect with more people and understand their problems.

He that travels much knows much.

The sources of inspiration from my travels have been unending.

There is a lot of noise and conflict in our political discourse, which is fun to cover, but I'm convinced from my travels that people also thirst for more details as well as insight and context.

My best sources are my travels and my collection of National Geographic.

I am who I am because of my experiences, my learnings in this creative world, my travels and meeting new people.

But by taking the time away, getting myself off the treadmill, and just slowing down and learning, I felt I had so much more to give back. And maybe that was something that needed to happen for all of us.

Sentences or solutions occur to me in the shower, or while running on the treadmill, or riding on the subway.

There is great treasure there behind our skull and this is true about all of us. This little treasure has great, great powers, and I would say we only have learnt a very, very small part of what it can do.

As you get older, you treasure the beautiful things of the past but also see things more clearly.

History's most treasured musicians were believed in and cultivated to reach their potential. Today, it would be difficult for those musicians to get deals. We have the insight and the tools to identify and bring to fruition the dormant talent that our artists possess.

I probably shouldn't treat interviews as therapy sessions, but I don't keep a diary, so these end up being my way of keeping track of where I'm at and letting it all out.

I know how a cinematographer wants to be treated by their director, and so I already have a leg up in that department, and I know what would be insulting to say to a DP because I've been one for so long.