I guess I'm quite used to not being understood rather than being understood.

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.

Nothing is a mistake. There’s no win and no fail. There’s only make.

Your 'let's remain calm and stay put' speech would be a lot more convincing if you weren't giving it in front of a pile of burning skeletons.

The problem isn't that people don't understand how good things are. It's that they know, from personal experience, that things really aren't that good.

In the 1970s, for all the Stevie Wonders, I'm sure there were five artists that were making forgettable music.

I'm concerned about the survival, historically, of constitutional democracy.

My mother taught me to always be strong and always work hard. She's been working hard her whole life for me and my brother. I'm a lot like her in that I work hard for what I want. She taught me that.

Live a life of gratitude, giving thanks in all circumstances.

I've noticed a pattern in stars that start acting out in public. Every one of them felt like they grew up without love.

When one's eyes are anointed with the salve of prema, spiritual love then we could see Vrindavan.

Passion is the great mover and spring of the soul. When men’s passions are strongest, they may have great and noble effects; but they are then also apt to fall into the greatest miscarriages.