I think religion is a mistake - I'm exhausted by its self-righteousness. I think atheists should start screaming for attention like religious folks do.

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.

What can I say Rango? What can I do to prove to you that I belong to you?

The journal is written to everyone and thus to no one.

When you find that it fails to respond adequately to your buying you don't need any better tip to sell.

Time, as is well known, sometimes flies like a bird and sometimes crawls like a worm, but human beings are generally particularly happy when they don't notice whether it's passing quickly or slowly.

It is our fall from a simplicity and fullness of life directly experienced, from the sensuous moment of knowing, which leaves a gap that the symbolic can never bridge.

Work is the law of the modern world, which has no place for lazy people.

A firm, hearty handshake gives a good first impression, and you'll never be forgiven if you don't live up to it.

Political debate is political debate and that's fine. That's healthy.

Love, hope, fear, faith - these make humanity; These are its sign and note and character.

We artists give daily thanks for the miracle of our planet and for the inclination and the capability to honour it.