Quotes About Curiosity

I learned music from a book on piano theory. I was only interested in knowing about chords. From that, and from the 'Harvard Dictionary of Music,' I learned everything I wanted to know.

When I was 5 or 6, I was messing around with the piano, and I listened to everything from Chopin to boogie-woogie.

I love school and science; I also love piano and music.

I didn't get into the music business because somebody made me take piano lessons, you know. I got into music because I was a natural writer and had a lot of curiosity about sound.

Pablo Picasso first entered my consciousness when I was a boy of about eight years old.

I want to meet Brandon Crawford and just pick his brain and figure out what helps him out on the defensive side of the ball.

I took up a sort of a hobby of just hanging around the local library. I'd pick out an author and I would read all their books.

I'm a good student. Just trying to learn as much as possible is how I picked up so many languages.

There is an art to eavesdropping, but I think to some extent we are all guilty of picking up those little odds and ends that can be quite intriguing if you analyse them.

I guess I knew my dad was into photography, so a part of me was interested in picking it up to understand him a little better.

I don't want to know what happens because I enjoy picking up a script and going, 'I do what?!'

Picking up new languages is fairly easy since it's my passion.

As adults, we've seen so much before that we often turn the pages of a picture book without really looking. Young children tend to look more carefully.

Writing for children is my... that's my medium, you know, and the medium is the picture book, which is a very particular kind of book. I try to give children what I would give anybody, you know. I become interested in something. I find something fascinating. It has to fascinate me, and then I want to give it to them.

As a boy, I used to look upon the hieroglyphics as so many wonderful pictures.

You know it has to do with Kelley and drugs, and me... and there's like, what is it? I didn't read it. That's my thing. That's what I do, I don't read things if I don't think they're going to be good. I don't even look at the pictures.

I won't lock my doors or bar them either if any of the old coots in the pictures out in the hall want to come out of their frames for a friendly chat.

I went around the corner to motion pictures.

I love looking at pieces of art through the eyes of a child.

I just want pieces of the world.

I love sci-fi and period pieces - it's fantasy. I can let myself dream a little bit. But also, I just really love science. I love knowing about how the world works.

I went to the city, behind my mom's back, and got my belly button pierced.

We're kind of a guinea pig generation.

I would never pigeon hole myself stylistically because I just don't know what I am going to want to do next.