I couldn't talk to people face to face, so I got on stage and started screaming and squealing and twitching.

My favorite time of day is to get up and eat leftovers from dinner, especially spicy food.

Sometimes it's a form of love just to talk to somebody that you have nothing in common with and still be fascinated by their presence.

The imminent demise of the large record companies as gatekeepers of the world's popular music is a good thing, for the most part.

Cycling can be lonely, but in a good way.

I try to write about small things. Paper, animals, a house... love is kind of big. I have written a love song, though. In this film, I sing it to a lamp.

Analysis is like a lobotomy. Who wants to have all their edges shaved off?

Deep down, I know I have this intuition or instinct that a lot of creative people have, that their demons are also what make them create.

I'm just an advertisement for a version of myself.

I don't care how impossible it seems.

I like a good story and I also like staring at the sea-- do I have to choose between the two?

Acknowledgement is possession. When you acknowledge, think or have conviction in something, it actually will come true.

There are anonymous poems and poets without poems.

Writing. Is it a way to be remembered, or a need to become immortal?

There is in superstition a senseless fear of God.

All of my work is influenced by fairy tales, and I hope my work shows Hans Christian Anderson's influence.

Nationalism is like cheap alcohol. First it makes you drunk, then it makes you blind, then it kills you.

Power is action; the electoral principle is discussion. No political action is possible when discussion is permanently established.

I think there is a case for strong action and intervention when there is criminality and when the leaders are corrupt or behaving in a criminal fashion.

Obscurity is the kingdom of error.

The universe doesn't owe you a sense of hope