Mat Kearney Quotes

Usually when I go to a place for the first time, unless there's something historical or spectacular that nature has to offer, the first thing I like to do is see what's on the minds of the people.

I like going to places that are so different than where I'm from.

Travelers never think that they are the foreigners

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 love traveling. It not only opens my mind up, but it also allows me to use my fame in another way through humanitarian works and stuff, and being an influence around the world.

It's trite to say that the world has gotten smaller in the age of globalization, but my travels have told me that it's wrong to think this means there is some kind of uniform world culture.

Whenever I go to a new city, whether visiting or vacationing, I would always make that a point to get to the record store early on, just to get my bearings and see what was going on around town.

When I left school, I went backpacking around the world for two years.

Every person, every race, every nation, has its own particular keynote which it brings to the general chord of life and of humanity.

There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.

I wanted to know what it would be like to get on a horse and ride all the way west to Europe and take a look back at my own culture through the eyes of a nomad.

A [minority or ethnic] group is best defined as a dynamic whole based on inter-dependence rather than on similarity.

The standup thing has been really fun, really seeing the United States instead of reading about it.

There is a restless identity in the New World. The New World needs an identity without guilt or blame.

When I went to Australia, I had this feeling, like, 'Wow, this is really a different country.' I think that feeling of genuine foreignness, that this is a very different culture, which is increasingly rare in our globalised world.

Even if it's a wonderful life, you wanna go somewhere and see the way other people reflect on the world and the lives that we're all living... I think regional theater is the life blood of our cultural lives.

One of the things non-aboriginal Canadians learned from aboriginal people over the last 400 years is you don't have to be one thing. That's a European idea. There's multiple personalities, multiple loyalties. You can be a Winnipegger, a Manitoban, a Westerner.

Sardinia is beautiful. The people were so friendly, and the food was incredible! I also loved Florence. I spent two months there as part of a school study-abroad program. On the weekends, we would get to travel wherever we wanted, so I would explore. That was a magical time.

Los Cabos has been an amalgam of many cultures that have been coming here. There have been beautiful Jesuit missions for example, in many places around this area. The towns are incredible. But there is a very strong Mexicanized culture here that exists because people from different parts of Mexico have come to live here.

I didn't realize how interesting the place I come from is until I left home and saw how other cultures handled things differently.

My mom is from Venezuela, and my dad is German and Japanese, and we lived in Brazil when I was a kid for a couple of years, and then I grew up on Long Island. I think all the traveling and all the nationalities put that stuff in my head. I was just around it a lot.

We believe in a better world, an unglobalised world, enriched by the cultural differences and customs of all the people.

Traveling changes you as a person. If you buy something, it's so different than if you put your money into traveling.

A lot of the attitude I used to have about being from New York when I was younger just disappeared when I started to the rest of the world.

I love experiencing new cultures and new foods.