When I met Apple, I made it very clear that I am an old punk and I have never done commercials or been sponsored. And I wasn't after their money.

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.

Why would anyone want to live in a cage when we are free persons? This is the point to make, when we can rattle cages it means we are behind bars and are not free.

Trees there were, old as trees can be, huge and grasping with hearts black as sin. Strange trees that some said walked in the night.

Everything I have ever written has been in the same chair, in the same room.

Directors have to push me. I have to be pushed up. Not all the time, but often.

He was not only, I soon discovered, a water drinker, but a strict vegetarian, to which, perhaps, he owed a great deal of the almost preternatural clearness, volubility, and sensitiveness of mind.

I've been married for 10 years and, you know, it's hard, you spruce it up and you go places. How do you spruce up anything? Artificially. You go places and do things.

Learn your lessons quickly and move on.

A [psychological] difficulty is not an impossibility.

People don't rise from nothing.

People should never think that you have to be a very special person to help those who need you.