I'd done three solo albums in a row, and that's quite narcissistic.

Football is a fertility festival. Eleven sperm trying to get into the egg. I feel sorry for the goalkeeper.

People are always asking me about eskimos, but there are no eskimos in Iceland.

Nature is our chapel.

Usually when you see females in movies, they feel like they have these metallic structures around them, they are caged in by male energy.

I love being a very personal singer-songwriter, but I also like being a scientist or explorer.

If you want to make something happen that hasn't happened before , you've got to allow yourself to make a lot of mistakes.

Now that rock is turning 50, it's become classical in itself. It's interesting to see that development.

I find it so amazing when people tell me that electronic music has no soul. You can't blame the computer. If there's no soul in the music, it's because nobody put it there.

I have to re-create the universe every morning when I wake up, and kill it in the evening.

I am one of the most idiosyncratic people around.

We don't know how much we are capable of loving until the people we love are being taken away, until a beautiful story is ending.

The proper condition of the human is not bovine placidity... the highest degree of tension that can be creatively borne.

Do not underestimate objects.

No man will be present in those mysteries, yet all men will kneel, no man will be potent, important, yet all men will feel what it is to be a woman.

Never give up, no matter how hard life gets no matter how much pain you feel. Pain will eventually subside, nothing remains forever, so keep going and don't give up.

I remember stealing some pic n' mix when I was seven; when I got out of the shop, I burst into tears.

The Church is not a museum to display perfect people, but a hospital for the hurting.

Simplicity is the key.

I live in a very small town and now that I've closed down my studio, I'm working at home.

God has seen fit that, since our services are useful to many persons, everyone approves them, but only when they are carried out in the spirit of Our Lord.