The more you say no the more people ask.

I discovered that a lot of the songs I like, they're fantasies, a vision of something, but you don't actually live there.

In an ideal world people would know the words just for the show and then forget them right after.

The basics of acting are really better in America than in Europe. Just the basic "fake laugh" is impossible to get in France.

I think every artist needs a rule that's stupid but that helps him, like a deadline would.

In France, anyone can use your music on like a TV show or whatever - they don't need to ask permission. It's almost like a child when it has its own life.

In France a lot of songs were ruined by their associations with commercials. But so far no Apple commercial has ruined a song for me.

One of my favorite French singers, Alain Bashung, was the expert at creating his own universe; no one knows what he's talking about, even he doesn't know because it's so poetic.

I think Björk is playing on the fact she knows she's eccentric and she accepts the fact.

There are any number of magical creatures, mostly female, whose singing can bring about horror and death. Sirens, undines, banshees, Bananarama tribute bands...

A visitor is a friend, he brings news, good or bad, which is bread to the hungry minds in lonely places. A real friend who comes to the house is a heavenly messenger, who brings the panis angelorum.

All life is preoccupied with death. Death is the only certain future. Yet in the face of reason, everyone holds out hope for the highly improbable.

I really appreciate my performing so much better, as I get older. I don't take it for granted anymore. I really relish it and love it.

Since the individual's desire to dominate his environment is not a desirable trait in a society which every day grows more and more confining, the average man must take to daydreaming.

Today is a new day. A New opportunity to get better stronger faster smarter and closer to your goals and dreams. Take it.

Time is our element, not a mistaken invader.

If you live in Europe . . . things change . . . but continuity never seems to break. You don't have to throw the past away.

Centralized health dictatorship.

Life shoould be touched, not strangled. You've got to relax, let it happen at times, and at other move forward with it.