There's something about the rhythm of walking, how, after about an hour and a half, the mind and body can't help getting in sync.

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.

If you really want the key to success, start by doing the opposite of what everyone else is doing.

Sometimes the righteous path doesn’t take you where you need to go!

When it came to portraying couples who never directly connected, the Newmans were the Olympic gold champions

It's terribly important that we extend the promise of equality that the Supreme Court and that the district court articulated in the DOMA case and in the Perry case to all Americans in all 50 states.

If what you preach and what you do are inconsistent, your children will spot hypocrisy faster than anybody and do the opposite.

The greatest handicap a person has is not realizing his potential.

In mathematics, as in physics, so much depends on chance, on a propitious moment.

I remember seeing Bill Hurt in New York once. I talked to him on the phone around 1988 and that's about it. I was shooting in New York and somebody said Glenn Close came by the set

I, thus neglecting worldly ends, all dedicated To closeness and the bettering of my mind.