Patti Smith Quotes

You can feel as brave as Columbus starting for the unknown the first time you enter a Chinese lane full of boys laughing at you, or when you risk climbing down in a Tibetan pub for a meal of rotten meat.

Staying at Airbnb listings gives me the opportunity to truly understand and experience the local culture of the countries I visit.

The first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it.

I'm certainly curious about people. As a kid, I moved around a lot. I was raised in a lot of different places, and thanks to working in the movies, I've gotten to keep traveling. I've always been interested in other cultures and languages.

China was the first time I truly felt like an outsider. I fell in love with the process of trying to become intimate with the culture.

Travel is the only way to get empathy for other people's mindsets - to know their struggles and what they're drawn to.

I like to learn things from other cultures. I'm curious. It's exciting to be in an unknown world, in a way.

When I live in a country, I always try to learn about the country - not just England, the U.K. as a whole - so I will stay here some days to do something different.

When you travel like I do, just within our own country the atmosphere is different. The environment is different; the way people talk is different. The energy is different. And that's just material-wise, with the local culture.

I have always been intrigued by other cultures, and traveling to foreign lands has always been a part of my personal passion for learning about our world.

I like to live like a local. When you are somewhere, you have to try to take the culture of that place and try to adapt.

Getting to see new places, their culture, and getting away from what I am used to is so rewarding.

Little things like that when you go to another country is so welcoming. You meet someone, they're so jolly, they speak the language, it really helps.

In college, my wife did a study abroad in Nairobi, and I did the exact same program in Cape Town. For me, the experience of being in that other culture really set up a longing. When I'm traveling, things seem really sharp. You learn things ten times faster.

I would like to do things like I did in Tanzania, going somewhere and exploring a theme and investigating as well as performing for those people.

Growing up in any big city, you get exposed to so many beautiful cultures. I've grown up with a lot of open eyes around me that's influenced my eyes to open.

You experience other cultures to give you a kind of shock that makes you look at your own culture. You appreciate it more as a result of being out of it, but you also realise there are some things lacking in your culture.

I am very happy since when I am in different cities I can experience and learn different cultures!

I didn't come east of the Mississippi for the first time in my life until I was 26 years of age, but I knew. I read magazines, I listened to radio, I watched television. I knew there was something out there, and I wanted a part of it.

As an actor, you tend to live in a really small world, which is not very healthy. It is enriching to go to new places, meet different people know and learn about things which you didn't know about.

One of the great ambitions is to discover the diversity of the world, to discover who inhabits the world.

I make it my business to see or do something cultural in every place I go to. If you don't, you'll get into a state of constant despair.

I sailed around Europe and lived with the Karen tribe in Thailand for a month.

I could do one show after another in China for the rest of my life and still die ignorant. There's a lot of places left to go.

Those who visit foreign nations, but associate only with their own country-men, change their climate, but not their customs. They see new meridians, but the same men; and with heads as empty as their pockets, return home with traveled bodies, but untravelled minds.