When I was 18, science, physics, and math were my favorite. I was a bit of a nerd - the only girl with a lot of boys at chess championships.

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.

Yoga is a mirror to look at ourselves from within.

Asked what role he believes art plays in society, Baselitz replied, 'The same role as a good shoe, nothing more.

God judges what we give by what we keep.

For me and for I'm sure any actor, each role is a different challenge to prepare for in a different way.

I was making choices that were very specific: Make a living, take care of your family, and if you can, find some movies that you can sink your teeth into.

And the pond's stillness nippled as if by rain instead is pocked with life.

I seem to produce a novel approximately once every three years.

It is unthinkable to allow complete strangers, whether individually or collectively as state legislators or others in government, to make such personal decisions for someone else.

I think we are all frightened a little bit when a new broom starts to sweep.

Love is a young green willow shimmering at the bare wood's edge