I’ve been traveling in Guatemala in the rainforest, and here all these houses are made of sticks. It seems so easy to make one.

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.

The point of protesting about 'moral equivalence' is surely not to blur moral choices on ‘our side’. Is it?

Harness your mind’s powerand you can reach the mountaintop.Harness your heart’s powerand you can reach the stars.Harness your soul’s powerand you can reach the edge of the universe.

I have to go with Data's makeup, because that was basically every day, 10 months out of the year, for seven years. There were only a couple of days that I had to endure for Dr. Soong.

Gravity is a mysterious carriage of the body invented to cover the defects of the mind.

There are moments when you feel trapped, ill at ease. A year later the same feeling can turn out to be the theme of a book.

Whatever she says to you, it’s your job not to let her make you mad.

More than guided missiles, all the world needs guided men.

That's an interesting thing about an object. One object speaks volumes about the company that produced it and its values and priorities.

Keep dreaming, wishing and planning. There's immeasurable power in it.

Yeah, I saw the guy running out of the building carrying a rifle, I just didn't say anything to the cops because I was so happy that I wasn't the one who got shot.