“I think every year brings unknowns that you have to deal with and handle, confront and embrace.”

Our times seem to be so much about redefining where we are physical and where we’re not.

You shouldn’t let poets lie to you.

i’m back at my cliff still throwing things off i listen to the sounds they make on their way down i follow him with my eyes ’till they crash imagine what my body would sound like slamming against those rocks.

If you can make nature and technology friends, then you can make everyone friends; you can make everyone intact. That’s what women do a lot – they’re the glue between a lot of things.

In school, I guess I was a difficult, know-it-all type of student… I was always complaining that music education was too academic.

I’d done three solo albums in a row, and that’s quite narcissistic.

I feel like the people from Iceland have a different relationship with their country than other places.

There is this stereotype of Icelanders all believing in spirits, and I’ve played up to that a bit in interviews.

I get highs, to be totally honest, in second-hand shops. My hunting instinct, I expect, really kicks in.

For a person as obsessed with music as I am, I always hear a song in the back of my head, all the time, and that usually is my own tune. I’ve done that all my life.

Everything is so designed and airbrushed and Botoxed, it makes us think, ‘Oh, everybody’s perfect except me. Everything’s smooth except me.’ But nothing is smooth.

When I was 20, political music was the uncoolest thing on earth. But when Bush got elected, that was the first time I started actually reading the news.

I do try and wear stuff by unknown designers, and I make sure I pay because if nothing else I have money.

I definitely can feel the third or fourth feminist wave in the air, so maybe this is a good time to open that Pandora’s box a little bit and air it out.

i thrive best hermit style. with a beard and a pipe.

Everything that a guy says once, you have to say five times.

The scramble to get into college is going to be so terrible in the next few years that students are going to put up with almost anything, even an education.

Touring is a young man’s game, but after 30 years of it, I want to stay home.

At this time of year it’s easy to forget the true meaning of Christianity – the lies, the corruption, the abuse.

I have been very fortunate in that I’m not doing all network shows or all cable shows, television has really become a year-round process in the way that it’s made.

I will fight in the United States Senate this year to fund a servicing mission to Hubble by 2008, a mission that would potentially increase Hubbles power and efficiency by a factor of 10 and allow us to look back almost to the beginning of the universe.

[United States] are sovereign country, they are an independent country, but this is their limit; they don’t have to interfere in any other country.

It’s not always enough to be brave, I realized years later. You have to be brave and contribute something positive, too. Brave on its own is just a party trick.

My faith is an important part of my life and over the years I’ve learnt that it takes a proud man to say he doesn’t need anything. It has been a quiet strength and a backbone through a lot of difficult times.