National Geographic contacted me about getting on their label, and I was like, 'Wow, I want to be label mates with the sharks and lemurs!'

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.

You may not have the power to control whatever happens to you, but you have the power to stop it from affecting your sense of style.

Yes, God has given us desire. But we are the ones that stoke it. What sort of kindling will we be using to make our fire?

Good and great are seldom in the same man.

...things are the way they are in our universe because if they weren't, we wouldn't be here to notice.

My music is about where I am at the time. In 'Raymond vs. Raymond, ' I was going through a lot of things, and it came out in my music. My marriage fell apart, and I was suddenly a single father.

Finding a stylist is a little like finding a date; you have to find who is right for you.

I felt like time was a great sea, and I was floating on the back of a turtle, and no sails broke the horizon.

The greatest gap in sports is between the winner and the loser of the Super Bowl. The winner has confetti, parades, rings, the whole thing. The loser puts his head down and goes to his house.

We are always complaining that our days are few, and acting as though there would be no end to them.

Not a man alive has so much luck that he can play with it.