Quotes About Curiosity

I was always asking people about their work. How do you do a job like that? Do you love it? What does it pay? I was lucky to have access to people who could answer my questions. Otherwise, my life could have turned out very differently.

The difficulty for me is that I'm interested in so many different things. I could never really imagine myself doing one thing, and I'm pretty sure that I'll end up doing four or five different things.

You can theorize as much as you want about what you think you're seeing, but until you get out there and dig, you can't tell exactly what it is.

I was going to write an autobiography once. I started writing it, and then I thought, 'No, let them dig around when I'm dead.'

I'm still digging long-established bands like U2 - they're new to me!

But my father is a very curious man. If he develops an interest in something, he makes sure that he learns it. And that attitude helped me teach him about the digital world.

I loved dinosaurs, I loved space, and I thought maybe I'd be the first paleo-astronaut.

I grew up loving dinosaurs, digging up things.

When I was a kid, I wanted to be a palaeontologist. I wanted to dig up dinosaurs.

One of my kids keeps on saying that he wants to be a paleontologist, but first he wants to make a time machine, so he can go back and save the dinosaurs.

Kids go through a stage where they love dinosaurs - boy or girl.

I've always been interested in Jewish culture, but never had a chance to dip into it.

Curiosity is the direct incontinency of the spirit.

You find a movie you love and you figure out who directed it, then you go to the video store and go through all the John Carpenter stuff and all the Sam Raimi stuff.

I wanted to try directing.

I used to take five or six books away and bring five or six books back. Nobody gave me direction or advice and I read much in the way that a boy might watch television.

I guess I like a lot of directors. Or at least I try to.

I had two older brothers who kept dirty mags under their mattresses. They didn't know I knew.

When I was given a tricycle, aged eight, I'd disappear for hours and do my own thing.

Why limit yourself to one discipline or field of study?

The thing is that I'm naturally curious about a lot of different disciplines in music, and I enjoy doing them. And as long as people are nice enough to let me, I'll keep on trying.

There's more discomfort being an old soul or a person who questions a lot of things. I'm young, but I'm old.

It's always great when you discover someone.

The amazing thing about music is that however many thousands of records I've got now, I know that there are still thousands more that I haven't even begun to discover.