Nature hasn't gone anywhere. It is all around us, all the planets, galaxies and so on. We are nothing in comparison.

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.

If anybody didn't have a messiah complex, it was Jesus

Off-limits or not, she was beautiful. The type of beautiful he could fall for.

As long as there exist summer, we shall love the winter! The day summer disappears from Earth, we shall hate the winter!

Death is the ugly fact which Nature has to hide, and she hides it well.

I like to have fun. I have never done anything well in my entire life that I didn't enjoy.

Everyone knows how we white people feel, the glorified Mammy figure who dedicates her whole life to a white family. Margaret Mitchell covered that. But no one ever asked Mammy how she felt about it.

Only what I'm not giving is what is lacking in any situation

I believe that when the going gets tough, you should just hit pause. Assimilate what is happening for 10 minutes. Your thoughts will be much clearer.

I write the books I want to read. I'm interested in seeing what happens with this book in the marketplace.

In America, we believe that our happiness depends on getting breaks, even though being American is already the biggest break we will ever get.