Choice of attention to pay attention to this and ignore that is to the inner life what choice of action is to the outer.

Thousands have lived without love, not one without water.

Water is the soul of the Earth.

We are all here on earth to help others; what on earth the others are here for I don't know.

We would rather be ruined than changed. We would rather die in our dread than climb the cross of the moment and let our illusions die.

Civilizations should be measured by the degree of diversity attained and the degree of unity retained.

Herds of reindeer move across Miles and miles of golden moss

All sins tend to be addictive, and the terminal point of addiction is damnation.

'Healing,' Papa would tell me, 'is not a science, but the intuitive art of wooing nature.'

Few people take an interest in Iceland, but in those few the interest is passionate.

No good opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible.

The only thing that stops you from from success is fear of the unknown

Only in the eyes of love you can find infinity.

A Grandmother thinks of her grandchildren day and night, even when they are not with her.She will always love them more than anyone would understand.

The less I say the more my work gets done.

I play and I've played in heavy bands, but when I write for myself, I don't particularly feel like writing huge rock riffs. It just doesn't work for me and my voice.

I would just like to say that opera is no longer about fat people in breastplates shattering wine glasses.

My mind is filled with cataclysm and apocalypse. I wish for earthquakes, eruptions, flood.

[My father] was not a racist, unlike what the white racist media would say. He had a global outlook just like Barack [Obama] and Michelle [Obama].

Nobody is going to take my kids away from me and I will fight to the death for that.

First inclination is to become a monk and leave the situation.