It's invisible, what women do. It's not rewarded as much.

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.

Growing up, all I did was play sports. I always loved music, but I never even thought I'd be on stage one day.

As for environments, the kingliest being ever born in the flesh lay in a manger.

Of what use is a fortune to me, if I cannot use it? [Lat., Quo mihi fortunam, si non conceditur uti?]

I have for many years made it a practice to read through the Bible once every year.

Art itself is female - it is full of graciousness, cadence, color, rhythm. It's full of love and grace.

The lights of stars that were extinguished ages ago still reaches us. So it is with great men who died centuries ago, but still reach us with the radiations of their personalities.

You have to continually and actively watch for the best parts of someone else that will let you experience love.

The secret of life', he said, 'is to become very very good at somethin' that's very very 'ard to do.

The lead either forges an instant connection with the reader, or the package fails.

Awards don't really mean much.