If you want to make something happen that hasn't happened before , you've got to allow yourself to make a lot of mistakes.

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.

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.

When I was a teenager in Iceland people would throw rocks and shout abuse at me because they thought I was weird. I never got that in London no matter what I wore.

Whenever you can’t balance what you see with what you believe you have conflict.

I hadn’t even left my room and already my day had taken a U-turn straight to hell.

He who begun has half done. Dare to be wise begin.

So I think we should stay focused on the real problem in the Middle East. It's not Israel. It's these dictatorships that are developing nuclear weapons with the specific goal of wiping Israel away.

I involve myself in an organisation called Tear Fund.

[Raymond] Chandler, I reread him, and there's a lot of bad writing there. I don't think he knew much about people.

Laws can discover sin, but not remove it

Thus does the Muse herself move men divinely inspired, and through them thus inspired a Chain hangs together of others inspired divinely likewise.

And therefore those skilled in war bring the enemy to the field of battle and are not brought there by him.

I think that women often can connect at a heart to heart level.