There's so many songs about heartbreak that exist this in the world, because music is somehow the perfect medium to express something like this.

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.

Nothing is final in history. It always moves on. Peace must be built again and again.

And it seemed increasingly obvious that the world would have to topple if he was to attain the glory that was rightfully his. They were consubstantial: glory and the capsized world.

Physical laws are ruled by logic, and are ungovernable: so when the die comes to rest on its edge, it owes neither apology nor account.

My biggest musical influences are probably my parents.

I mulled over what he had told me as I savored the Scotch. Not bad, really - like a beer that's been in a brawl.

The unfortunate have claims upon the hearts of those whom God has blessed with affluence.

I used to think the years would go by in order, that you get older one year at a time. But it's not like that. It happens overnight.

There are remarks that sow and remarks that reap.

Every time a story about me appears in a newspaper, I am injured professionally.

I can't imagine myself not being an actor.