I got really interested in the language used in blogs written by young girls - a young person's aggression, which is always lacking from the visual world.

Health is so important now, it's ridiculous - the body has become frightening, this thing that will kill you if you don't keep really healthy. The body is the enemy now.

I'm not trying to be a solution or create a freer, utopian world. I think my music dreams of it, though.

I'm constantly reading and trying to enlighten myself to how the world works in its silent ways to make everything seem normal when it's actually incredibly discriminating.

I'm obsessed with voices in film. I have this memory of how people say words, even on the most intensely stupid reality TV show.

I'm inspired by that rawness in very direct communication. My work is not meant to keep people happy or give them an escape.

I've always seen myself as the person listening to alternative music and all that - generic indie person. I always tried to be the least pretty I could be.

Soft things are terrifying. They're the real signals of death. Images of strength can never be that terrifying. It's the images of weakness that are a real apocalypse.

When you're outside of genre, you can expose more vulnerability.

If you believe that you have nothing to fight for, that just means the people in power, and the people with money, can sneak anything into your life. Everything can be taken away from you.

I'm not in any way trying to make statements that are not also invaded by emotions and abstract ideas that I don't really understand myself. It's more interesting when I can do that.

If you are doing something good, never do it free

Whatever God does today will be as significant as the parting of the Red Sea.

Good habits were the easiest ones to break.

Our football belongs to the working class and has the size, nobility and generosity to allow everyone to enjoy it as a spectacle.

Does inadequacy not characterize all that we make use of to perceive and describe the world? Are the signs of language not just as inadequate, albeit differently, as are images?

I am confident that many people will find the New Testament alive in a new way after reading The Message.

I see nothing in the theory of evolution inconsistent with an Almighty Creator and Protector.

Who publishes the sheet-music of the winds or the music of water written in river-lines?

When the last Puritan has disappeared from the earth, the man of science will take his place as a killjoy, and we shall be given the same old advice but for different reasons.

Instead of waiting for opportunities to be handed to us, we need to create them. We need to advocate for ourselves.