Gregory Smith Quotes

No matter how you travel, it's still you going.

Especially on unexpected journeys, you have time; you can figure certain deeper things out, like who you are and what you want. That's why I enjoy journeys.

I really do feel like Los Angeles is my home now and, as cliche as this sounds, I felt like I found myself here and I really know who I am now. There was a long period like I was drifting or floating through life, and now I feel like I have a definitive target - and future.

Alabama will always be home and have a special place in my heart, but I want my life to be more than just living there. I want to see more of the world and, through that, find out more about myself.

As a kid, I used to dream about airplanes before I ever flew in one. I really knew, when I started photographing, I wanted it to be a way of knowing different cultures, not just in other countries but in this country, too, and I knew I wanted to enter other lives. I knew I wanted to be a voyeur.

To me, the most interesting part of 'True Blood' is that the entire crux of the show is based on identity and finding your true identity.

To travel is to take a journey into yourself.

I quit my job. I bought myself a real cheap, like, around-the-world flight ticket, and I went to 16 countries for six months just backpacking, living in cheap hostels, looking for stories with a camera and my ex-girlfriend.

He traveled in order to come home.

It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves - in finding themselves.

L.A. is so isolated and unhip in a way; it gives you room to figure out who you are and explore more personal stuff.

People want to go out and travel around and meet cool people. I could just go live in Vermont, but is that what I really want?

Every time I took a long leave from home, I felt as if I were going to conquer the world. Or rather, take possession of what is my birthright, my inheritance.

I don't know what makes me me. Sometimes it's really annoying to be me, but I have always had a spirit that wants to find a challenge, parties, the life, the attention, where the most energy is - I'm going in.

There is really a whole new appreciation when you leave and then come back.

I never was a hippie! I went to India because so many friends like Mia Farrow and the Beatles were going there to discover truth. And so I went and trekked through India by myself, but instead of discovering truth, I wanted to join the Peace Corps.

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

Oh, definitely and I talk about all the things that I really needed to make me happy at that point in time were outside of Mississippi, and now all the things that I need to make me happy are back there.

I felt like Inglewood, being the place where I originally found my voice, would be the place where I could sort of redefine my voice.

Every man's got to find themselves, and I found myself in bloody Western Australia, of all places - there was as far away as I could.

I enjoy exploring and finding myself.

It's been great to travel because I really enjoyed being 'Elektra', so it's not a problem talking about it.

On the Road that I have taken, one day walking I awaken, amazed to see where I've come, where I'm going, where I'm from.

You cannot really be too concerned with what people think of you. You're on your own adventure of growth and discovery. So it's not always good to be who people think you are, especially if you subscribe to it as well ... which is easily done, because then you don't have to figure out who you are, you just ask somebody else.

New situations inspire new thoughts. Here is the benefit of travelling, much more than in mere sight-seeing. We lose ourselves in the streets of our own city, and go abroad to find ourselves.