I'm an absolutely dreadful hockey player.

Fandom can keep something alive, and fandom can take it down.

He is the vampire that had the greatest love of all times. And lost the greatest love of all times.

My friends would certainly call me out if I didn't say that I like to create a bit of chaos and stir things up in my own life.

Louisiana has got a very specific warmth and humidity and richness of light.

Norway was occupied by the Germans in the Second World War, and I've met a lot of people who had to live through that occupation in varying degrees.

Mother Nature is the great equalizer. You can't get away from it.

Whenever I travel anywhere, I'm constantly asked if I'm Swedish. It's the burden of most Norwegians. The Swedes have just got a better publicity agent, I think.

Every episode of 'True Blood' is like shooting a low budget feature.

Roots never get the appreciation that a flower does, but that doesn’t make them envious.

It’s a sad state of affairs when I’m the one bringing sanity to the equation

Confidence sometimes requires purposeful preparation and practice.

I realise now that I wanted to disappear. To get so lost that nobody ever found me. To go so far away that I'd never be able to make my way home again. But I have no idea why.

Teachers, you don't teach a subject, you teach a child.

The present day composer refuses to die.

I frequently tramped eight or ten miles through the deepest snow to keep an appointment with a beech tree or a yellow birch or an old acquaintance among the pines.

Every moment of your life is either a test or a celebration.

ne thing you have to develop as an artist is a confidence in what you're doing and that you're right about it.

From New Hampshire forward, for reasons that absolutely mystified me, the press thought the most important issue in the race was the middle class tax cut. I never did meet any voter who thought that.