Jay Kay Quotes

I'm scared of horses, and I don't know how to shoot them, but that's what excites me. After 40 years old, if you don't do some things that really terrify you, I don't think they're worth doing.

I wanted to be scared again... I wanted to feel unsure again. Thats the only way I learn, the only way I feel challenged.

Every day I do something that freaks me out.

I love finding things that scare me and doing them. That's how you grow.

I wish I was more adventurous.

I fear the boredom that comes with not learning and not taking chances.

I love going out of my comfort zone - I live to go out of my comfort zone.

I want to do things that scare me, and also have a good time.

I like to scare myself and throw myself off the deep end.

If it is not scary, it is not worth doing.

Life is always a tightrope or a feather bed. Give me the tightrope.

If I'm not completely daunted, I'm not interested.

Part of the criteria for doing a project is that it's scary or challenging because at some point you go, 'It's too scary; it's too challenging. I don't want to do it.' But things that seem easy are never any fun.

I like a challenge. I like doing things that scare me.

I'm kind of a challenge junkie, I think.

In 2012, I promised myself I'd do something each month I'd never done before. So I skydived. I did trapeze lessons. I rode a motorcycle... All stuff that I'd never done.

I want to scare myself when I choose what I want to work on.

You do have to challenge yourself. I think scared is a good thing.

The more scared we are of a work or calling, the more sure we can be that we have to do it.

The greatest opportunities in life come with fear and risk.

Who wanted to creep along in comfort when there was one chance in a thousand of flying?

Do what you're afraid to do.

Bunkum and tummyrot! You'll never get anywhere if you go about what-iffing like that. Would Columbus have discovered America if he'd said 'What if I sink on the way over? What if I meet pirates? What if I never come back?' He wouldn't even have started.

Take a leap of faith. You will either land somewhere new or learn to fly.

I like the encouragement I get from doing new things. I like to feel scared or challenged in the hope that I can pull it off. That little bit of fear creates an energy that I can channel into the performance.