As a singer-songwriter, what I do is write about how the human feels.

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.

The most complicated skill is to be simple.

Health is the great blessing of God.

The ritual works. The forms overcome doubts. We have learned over the centuries to weave meaning around emptiness and pain. A meaning and a pattern. We have been practising that for a very long time.

I hope to turn my reader into the quiet person in the corner who, even when no one is telling them anything, sees everything.

It is difficult to accept death in this society because it is unfamiliar. In spite of the fact that it happens all the time, we never see it.

Consummate talent and relentless passion - The Truth ain't pretty...but it rocks like crazy!

Hospitality still survives among foreigners, although it is buried under false pride among the poorest Americans.

the reason God made February short a few days was because he knew that by the time people came to the end of it they would die if they had to stand one more blasted day.

O what a blessing is Sunday, interposed between the waves of worldly business like the divine path of the Israelites through the sea.

Make your judgments and then you don't have to worry about it. You're always going to have those people who are offended about every little thing.