You shouldn't let poets lie to you.

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.

A sense of humour is the only divine quality of man

Good books makes good life.Great books makes great life.

It's witchcraft with all the crusts cut off, and real witchcraft is ALL crusts.

What we feel is a choice.

I don't know of a great artist who did not sacrifice and thereby have to wrestle with the depths of loneliness and sadness.

Miracles are simply a change in perception.

What of a truth that is bounded by these mountains and is falsehood to the world that lives beyond?

You would almost think it would be the opposite, but making a film sort of made me freer in my acting.

Painting stems from a sense of organisation, the sensed positions of contrasts. Not that it is about this.

In the past, most wars were motivated by the idea of nationhood. Today, however, wars are incited above all using religion as an excuse.