Big stuff and little: learning how to order breakfast in a country where I don’t speak the language and haven’t been before – that’s really satisfying to me. I like that.

I learned to walk as a baby, and I haven’t had a lesson since.

The proactive approach to a mistake is to acknowledge it instantly, correct and learn from it.

I never go anywhere. I do sketches and make phone calls, and people visit. It’s more fun to come to Paris.

Anyone who’s traveled with me to Afghanistan knows why I love this book: ‚War,‘ by Sebastian Junger.

Irregularity and want of method are only supportable in men of great learning or genius, who are often too full to be exact, and therefore they choose to throw down their pearls in heaps before the reader, rather than be at the pains of stringing them.

When all the routines and details and the human bores get on our nerves, we just yearn to go away from here to somewhere else. To go fishing is a sound, a valid, and an accepted reason for an escape. It requires no explanation.

You aren’t learning anything when you’re talking.

Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.

Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.

Technology is huge; I wanted to learn about it. People might say that’s odd, but I think it’s odd if artists aren’t interested in the world around them. I’m always chasing that.

My home is in Heaven. I’m just traveling through this world.

It is impossible to begin to learn that which one thinks one already knows.

You entertain people who are satisfied. Hungry people can’t be entertained – or people who are afraid. You can’t entertain a man who has no food.

Read about history, and you become aware that nothing starts with us.

Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.

The land created me. I’m wild and lonesome. Even as I travel the cities, I’m more at home in the vacant lots.

When you learn about the teaching and the practice of another tradition, you always have a chance to understand your own teaching and practice.

We are all geniuses up to the age of ten.

To discover and know has always been a deep tendency of our nature. Can we not recognize it already in caveman?

You cannot open a book without learning something.

When I prepare, I am not messing around. I find the right places, the right people, and the right environment. Iceland is one of those places.

I am just a child who has never grown up. I still keep asking these ‚how‘ and ‚why‘ questions. Occasionally, I find an answer.

You can’t learn in school what the world is going to do next year.

I just really want to get music out and tour and go places I’ve never been, and just do more videos. I love photography and videography, and so I really want to direct videos when I can.

Steak and Shake in Indianapolis is definitely the first stop when we hit that city.

Let’s not burn the universities yet. After all, the damage they do might be worse.

A life without adventure is likely to be unsatisfying, but a life in which adventure is allowed to take whatever form it will is sure to be short.

A child miseducated is a child lost.

My absolute favorite meal in Nashville is sweet-potato pancakes at Pancake Pantry.

It is better to create than to learn! Creating is the essence of life.

I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained.

Treat failure as a lesson on how not to approach achieving a goal, and then use that learning to improve your chances of success when you try again. Failure is only the end if you decide to stop.

If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast.

In karting, you turn up and drive, look at the data and go home. But I like doing more, learning about the engines and how to make them go even better.

There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.

And I wound up in New Orleans for all those years and it was a great place, really a catalyst creatively.

To walk through the ruined cities of Germany is to feel an actual doubt about the continuity of civilization.

When you are learning about a martial art, it is about respect.

I hope to play until I’m, like, 38 or something, and that’s a lot of years in the game and a lot of travel and a lot of sacrifice on my family’s part.

You learn a lot in life but there are a lot of tools and resources in school that help you grow professionally and personally for whatever goal you may want to achieve.

Education is the leading of human souls to what is best, and making what is best out of them.

Instead of giving money to found colleges to promote learning, why don’t they pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it works as good as the Prohibition one did, why, in five years we would have the smartest race of people on earth.

There is no sin except stupidity.

When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home.

Childhood is the sleep of reason.

A child cannot be taught by anyone who despises him, and a child cannot afford to be fooled.

I would love to study guitar or trumpet.

I make good music for long journeys.

A person who won’t read has no advantage over one who can’t read.

I can find in my undergraduate classes, bright students who do not know that the stars rise and set at night, or even that the Sun is a star.

I think we’re doing a dreadful job of educating.

I would drive to gigs in my tiny little Fiat. I would shoot up and down the M1 to play at various places.

Growing up, my grandmother did not want worldly music in the house. Then when I went out to California, I started listening to Spanish music, mostly Mexican music. But were I in Egypt, I would listen to the music of the people, or if I was in Italy, I’d listen to Italian music.

Being on tour is like being in limbo. It’s like going from nowhere to nowhere.

Flying might not be all plain sailing, but the fun of it is worth the price.

There have been times that I’ve wept as I’ve gone from city to city and I’ve seen how far people have wandered from God.

All I really had was a suitcase and my drums. So I took them up to Seattle and hoped it would work.

I made my fair share of mistakes.

I never write about the road. I never write about hotels or anything like that.

Learning is the beginning of wealth. Learning is the beginning of health. Learning is the beginning of spirituality. Searching and learning is where the miracle process all begins.