Natasha Khan Quotes

I opened up every can of worms I could. I got to the place where I would peel back one layer, and then another layer, and the stuff that would come up underneath was so inspiring, it made me want to write about it.

I go into the whole composer thing quite open to keep on going and keep on trying different things because you never know... the next idea you have might be the one.

I don't write about things that I have the answers to or things that are very close to home. It just wouldn't be any adventure. It wouldn't have any vitality.

Often times, I'm surprised by what I'm writing or what I'm playing, and then that inspires me to keep going with it, so it ends up being a very adventurous process.

You want experimentation. Every once in awhile, you stumble upon something that blows your mind.

You can find inspiration when you're not even looking for it.

I try to be led by my curiosity.

The best ideas come out of getting lost.

I like going into places that you never know what you're going to find because you can go in with no ideas and leave with thousands.

Music takes me where I go. I'm always open to wherever the journey will take me.

I spent a lot of time on recce. It is a kind of creative chaos, but I like the sense of creative serendipity.

Being on the road is very inspiring.

I've learned that borders are where the actual ends, but also where the imagination and the story begins.

I'm a traveler and a vagabond and an observer, and the songs come through that. And that's just the way it's going to be.

A poem is an invitation to a voyage. As in life, we travel to see fresh sights.

Real travel requires a maximum of unscheduled wandering, for there is no other way of discovering surprises and marvels, which, as I see it, is the only good reason for not staying at home.

Writing will be like a journey, every word a footstep that takes me further into undiscovered land.

I never know in advance what I will photograph,...I Go Out into the World and Hope I Will come across something that Imperatively interests me. I Am Addicted to the Found object. I have No doubt that I Will Continue to make Photographs till my last Breath.

Do as many ideas as possible. The right idea will pick you.

Our happiest moments as tourists always seem to come when we stumble upon one thing while in pursuit of something else.

Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home.

Those moments when you feel you want to read something truly beautiful. The eyes make a tour of the library, and there is nothing. Then you decide to take no matter what, and it is full of beautiful things.

It is the job of artists to open doors and invite in prophesies, the unknown, the unfamiliar; it’s where their work comes from, although its arrival signals the beginning of the long disciplined process of making it their own. Scientists too, as J. Robert Oppenheimer once remarked, ‘live always at the ‘edge of mystery’­—the boundary of the unknown.’ But they transform the unknown into the known, haul it in like fishermen; artists get you out into that dark sea.

I have been trying to point out that in our lives chance may have an astonishing influence and, if I may offer advice to the young laboratory worker, it would be this-never neglect an extraordinary appearance or happening. It may be-usually is, in fact-a false alarm that leads to nothing, but may on the other hand be the clue provided by fate to lead you to some important advance.

Whatever you love, that will be an influence. It just will. So in effect the young writer's job is: go out and find some stuff to love.