I'm from Sweden so I don't enjoy winter at all; there's nothing cute about it.

I felt such a deep connection with dolphins. I felt like they were the only ones who understood me.

If you're being ignored, that's a good time to concentrate on finding yourself and creating your own mystery.

I believe life's too short for compromises and bad fitting jeans

I was inspired by [Michelangelo] Antonioni's Red Desert - very big and moody.

I want to get my music out there. I enjoy playing shows; I just don't enjoy airports. I want to be more creative, but it's hard to get into that zone on tour.

I am such a complex person. I have so many different layers of my personality to choose from. I am super-sensitive, and I am super-strong.

I dove into the craziness and did things that maybe I would think twice about when I get older.

In every person's life, around 27 to 29 years old, the stars and the planets align themselves to exactly the way they were when you were born. You're faced with yourself. There's no running away.

I was totally romanticizing the idea of Los Angeles when the Doors, Joni Mitchell, and Neil Young were hanging out there.

I lived five years in Portugal and then spent winters in Nepal or India.

Don't worry about writing a book or getting famous or making money. Just lead an interesting life.

Man is an animal which, alone among the animals, refuses to be satisfied by the fulfillment of animal desires.

Making your life is ultimately an extraordinarily creative endeavor.

Fashion is ultimately a form of self-expression. Thats why I love trying out new things.

I am the blank page between the Old and the New Testament.

I don't get even, I get odder.

The wise are not so much wiser than others as respecters of their own wisdom.

The fame of surgeons resembles the fame of actors, who live only during their lifetime and whose talent is no longer appreciable once they have disappeared.

The more uniform a man's voice, step, manner of conversation, handwriting--the more quiet, uniform, settled, his actions, his character.

Whenever I get lost in a novel I just throw a poem in. What it does is flare up, and it's so illuminated that I'm able to see where to go. I write between these illuminations.