What probably confuses people is they know a lot about me, but it quite pleases me that there's more they don't know.

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.

I would never be able to lead the insane lifestyle I do, traveling all over the world, if I wasn't eating food that was simple and healthy.

Presumption should never make us neglect that which appears easy to us, nor despair make us lose courage at the sight of difficulties.

It is courage, courage, courage, that raises the blood of life to crimson splendor.

Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem to be more afraid of life than death.

With Instapaper, I can take a few months off. I can't stop publishing 'The Magazine' for two months and work on something else.

When you have the humility to listen to the Bible it does more than enlighten us, it transforms us.

Like, my house has a nice view, because, you know, I was on 'Friends.'

one pale woman all alone, The daylight kissing her wan hair, Loitered beneath the gas lamps' flare, With lips of flame and heart of stone.

I ask not for a larger garden, but for finer seeds.

Books are something social - a writer speaking to a reader - so I think making the reading of a book the center of a social event, the meeting of a book club, is a brilliant idea.