I learned what a lot of women have to do is make the guys in the room think it was their idea, and then you back them up.

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.

There’s nothing like breaking the law to hear from the Lord.

Falling in love is like seeing the ocean for the very first time, when all of your life you've been stepping in puddles.

You only have the burdens on you that you choose to put there.

Canadians are like Americans, just less racist, violent, and ignorant.

People who know me would say they get a kick out of the fact that I'm always playing nice people, not that I'm not a nice person, but it's not a defining element.

That which is produced with intention has passed over from non-existence to existence.

Those lovers scorn whom that love doth possess? Do they call virtue there ungratefulness?

Irony: Don't let yourself be controlled by it, especially during uncreative moments.

In the abstract conception of universal wrong, all concrete responsibility vanishes.

What works in the real world is cooperation.