The reason I do interviews is because I'm protecting my songs.

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 you say yes when you mean no, you are not being authentic, or true to yourself, to who you really are. You are not living your life, you are trying to fit in with someone else's.

Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.

I've never understood multi-party democracy. It's hard enough with two parties.

In science, mistakes always precede the truth

It's simple. Success comes from training harder, living better and digging deeper than the others.

Nothing changes the environment like one person deciding to love another, no matter what.

Believe it or not, that was the first time I recognized that in some ways she was just like the rest of us.

I went to ballet school for nine years, and there was an agent for the whole school who happened to be there visiting one of the performances. She suggested an audition.

All your behavior results from the thoughts that precede it.