If nothing else, I have money.

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.

I don't believe in competitions between artists. This is insane. Who has the authority to say someone is better?

The rest of the planets have their dress and furniture, nay and their inhabitants too, as well as this Earth of ours.

Mitt Romney is quite a guy. At one point he and his wife bought a zoo and fired all the animals.

I ended up turning down a full scholarship of music at the conservatory to pay to go to cooking school.

Wildness It is perennially within us, dormant as a hard-shelled seed, awaiting the fire or flood that awakes it again.

After a year of doing general farm work, it was quite clear to me that chickens and I were not compatible.

First, we must do our own personal work, then we tend the necessary work of our family, then our community, then the world.

We can coexist well [with Muslims]. But there are fundamentalist groups.

I'd like to record somewhere really different. Rent a really big house and get a mobile in and set up in the dining room. Maybe New England; it'd be nice in September or October.

Everywhere you go you hear things that are untrue. You've just got to learn that if I don't say it, physically out of my mouth, on camera, it's not true.