I think I'm Swedish because I like to live here on this island. You can't imagine the loneliness and isolation in this country. In that way, I'm very Swedish - I don't dislike to be alone.

I am living permanently in my dream, from which I make brief forays into reality.

No form of art goes beyond ordinary consciousness as film does, straight to our emotions, deep into the twilight room of the soul.

Here, in my solitude, I have the feeling that I contain too much humanity.

Old age is like climbing a mountain. You climb from ledge to ledge. The higher you get, the more tired and breathless you become, but your views become more extensive.

Only someone who is well prepared has the opportunity to improvise.

We make each other alive; it doesn’t make a difference if it hurts.

Film as dream, film as music. No art passes our conscience in the way film does, and goes directly to our feelings, deep down into the dark rooms of our souls.

My basic view of things is - not to have any basic view of things. From having been exceedingly dogmatic, my views on life have gradually dissolved. They don't exist any longer.

There is no art form that has so much in common with film as music. Both affect our emotions directly, not via the intellect.

There's always a tension in me between my urge to destroy and my will to live... Every morning I wake up with a new wrath, a new suspiciousness, a new desire to live.

Things are just things. They can't bring back the dead. it just makes me feel better.

As you call people to submit to the Person of Christ, you can trust the Spirit of Christ to lead them to salvation.

Never, my little one, hide anything from those that love you. Never let anything that makes itself a nest in your heart, grow into a secret, for then at once it will begin to eat a hole in it.

The thing I always default to is that I'll always be here to write songs.

Am I motivated by what I really want out of life - or am I mass-motivated?

I love The Walking Dead. I’m a massive fan of that show.

In truth I care little about any party's politics—the man behind it is the important thing.

It is better to practice a little than talk a lot.

While Dawn worked two jobs to meet ends, her son was busy cutting school and hanging with his friends.

Real science can be far stranger than science fiction and much more satisfying.