The assumption is that your personal life has to be a mess to create, but how much chaos can you allow in before it takes over?

My favorite time of day is to get up and eat leftovers from dinner, especially spicy food.

Sometimes it's a form of love just to talk to somebody that you have nothing in common with and still be fascinated by their presence.

The imminent demise of the large record companies as gatekeepers of the world's popular music is a good thing, for the most part.

I couldn't talk to people face to face, so I got on stage and started screaming and squealing and twitching.

Cycling can be lonely, but in a good way.

I try to write about small things. Paper, animals, a house... love is kind of big. I have written a love song, though. In this film, I sing it to a lamp.

Analysis is like a lobotomy. Who wants to have all their edges shaved off?

Deep down, I know I have this intuition or instinct that a lot of creative people have, that their demons are also what make them create.

I'm just an advertisement for a version of myself.

I don't care how impossible it seems.

Romance is the glamour which turns the dust of everyday life into a golden haze.

Joblessness gives you the resource through which you can create a new you

Think pleasantly

Everyone lives by selling something.

Mariam saw now the sacrifices a mother made. Decency was but one.

Tell it to everyone you know, but pretend you're kidding.

The fear of your own solitude, of its vast surface and its infinity… Remorse is the voice of solitude. And what does this whispering voice say? Everything in us that is not human anymore.

Life is an art we are required to practice without preparation, a score that we play at sight even before we have mastered our instruments.

What a strange world it is, where prisoners are left their weapons and the written word is a mortal danger.