Karen O Quotes

No, you never get any fun out of the things you haven't done.

Sometimes doors open and other close and you have to figure out which one you're going to take. I'm always for the one that's challenging. That's where I think you live your life to the fullest.

You've gotta dive into the abyss if you wanna get anything good. Every record, you've gotta go down in the abyss and hope that you come out of it alive.

I want to be scared. I want to keep taking insane risks. I want to be scared because you're going to grow through that whether you want to or not. I don't want to play the same guy. I want to keep throwing curveballs to you guys and keep telling stories.

I always try to put myself in the way of surprise as much as possible. My ambition is to keep challenging myself. I like that journey of discovery.

Always trying new things is always more fun, and it can be scary, but it's always more fun in the end.

I believe if you are not rediscovering yourself and pushing boundaries, then you are not alive.

There is no discovery without risk and what you risk reveals what you value.

It's only when you risk failure that you discover things. When you play it safe, you're not expressing the utmost of your human experience.

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

I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes, then you are making new things, trying new things, learning, living, pushing yourself, changing yourself, changing your world. You're doing things you've never done before, and more importantly, you're doing something.

Any creative process is about being in a territory which isn't secure, isn't necessarily familiar, and isn't convenient in any sort of way. And that's the excitement of it.

The spirit around leaving New York, for me, was that I just felt I needed to do something really outside of my comfort zone. And I really couldn't tell you at the time why I needed to do it. It wasn't like I was running from something dark; it was a desire to shake things up.

The coolest things in life are things that you have not done before. That's the key to life: new things always.

From the very beginning, I've always just wanted to do something I've never done before. I'm still just trying to be on that path. It's all about working with filmmakers that you believe in.

I want to try new things and put myself out there and take some risks.

The most adventurous I've been was doing Raleigh International when I was 20.

Adventure is worthwhile in itself.

So, I decided that whatever I was, wanted to do with my life, it would have to do, it would have to have something to do with the exploration and doing new things.

I love when I am outside my comfort zone.

Be willing to step outside your comfort zone once in a while; take the risks in life that seem worth taking. The ride might not be as predictable if you'd just planted your feet and stayed put, but it will be a heck of a lot more interesting.

I'm never doing anything by rote. I'm only on thin ice, and I think that that's a good place to be. I feel like when you push yourself like that, the rewards can be pretty great.

You have to be slightly uncomfortable with what you're doing, and you have to be able to try to find moments of newness.

I'm always interested in the challenge of doing something new.

Without risk you can't experience life. There have to be risks, physically and mentally, taken by everyone.