It takes a long time to fully become who you are.

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.

Not all things can be expressed through words, not all the words reflect the truth.

He uses the nice old words so rich in tradition to be sure I know he means it.

I mean, if you have to wake up in the morning to be validated by the editorial page of the New York Times, you got a pretty sorry existence.

So-called restoration is at least as tricky as brain surgery. Most pictures expire under scalpel and sponge.

It is difficult to divest one's self of vanity; because impossible to divest one's self of self-love.

You don't have to write like David Foster Wallace or James Baldwin or Maggie Nelson - indeed, you shouldn't. Those writers are doing it better than you ever could.

You are a genius beyond description, so start telling yourself that and become aware of who you really are.

People's talk and the stories they tell have been engraved on my heart, and some of them have flown into my pen.

The strong desire for success is the best indication that you can achieve success.

Man, I hate waking up with a dead hooker.