i thrive best hermit style. with a beard and a pipe.

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.

It takes understanding to be outstanding

I sometimes give myself excellent advice. Occasionally, I even listen to it.

It is easy to accept a deal, but hard to refuse it.

Long miles of snow and mountains spun out behind him, and his hooves scattered stardust or snow crystals. He went bounding on and on, right on the spine of the world, thrust out against the night sky

Money tends to make people suspicious, if there's any money floating around.

Sometimes you think you know things, know things very deeply, only to realize you don't know a damn thing.

I have a genuine belief in giving back to the community.

Love is the veil between lover and lover.

Social Security must be preserved and strengthened. But we need to be candid about the costs and willing to make the tough choices that real reform will require.

Poetry wants to make things mean more than they mean, says someone, as if we knew how much things meant, and in what unit of measure.