The option is always on the table. When we [with Bjork] were starting as creative kids in the Eighties, we found each other. I was 19, she was 16 and a friendship was made.

I have seen the universe! It is made of poems!

Literature acknowledges that life is complicated.

All authors secretly hope that their works will be read in 100 years' time and 200 years, and that they will somehow survive into the future.

What literature brings to our times is always the fact that literature refuses to bring any simple or easy answers.

Politics enter dangerous ground, when people proclaim there are simple answers for our complex world.

Bjork is one of my oldest friends so we share the friendship and common roots. That is what we build on when we work together.

A great number of tourists have been flocking Iceland and those numbers are growing every year. That also raises questions like "How do we receive people?" and "How do we present our country?"

[ Bob Dylan] should let the Nobel Prize Committee know if he is accepting it or not. He will not be the first one who declines the prize for political or personal reasons. He should just tell them.

[Bob Dylan] is a worthy laureate for the Nobel Prize.

I have to face questions like, "Do I simply write the best text I possibly can? Do I specifically engage with contemporary issues? 'Do I consciously try to write something that is timeless?"

Wisdom comes at a price. But the price you have to pay shouldn’t guide your decision to invest – the expected return should.

Reality can be very boring.

There are no people who are whole" he says. "Everyone has issues of their own to deal with. Mine might be a little harder, but the main thing is how on deals with them.

There is still some art in pop music. But it can't happen if you're not inspired.

A lighthouse is more useful than a church.

We're not supposed to mention f***ing in mixed company, but that's exactly where it takes place.

He who understand my music will remain free from the miseries that the other men are dragging with them .

Sometimes I see the world for how f-ked up it really is. I tell myself I'll be the one to make a change in it. I could die tonight; not make it to the sunrise, then I couldn't hear the pain in it.

Any successful entrepreneur knows that time is more valuable than money itself.

Inevitably out of the psychedelic experience emerges not despair, not self-indulgence, but wild-eyed idealism, that's the inevitable product of any psychedelically driven social process.