I learned what a lot of women have to do is make the guys in the room think it was their idea, and then you back them up.

Icelandic peoples were the ones who memorized sagas... We were the first rappers of Europe.

[As a kid] I felt it was really weird that music schools behaved like a conveyor belt to make performers for those symphony orchestras. If you were really good and practiced your violin for a few hours a day for ten years you might be invited to this VIP elite club. For me music was not about that. It is about freedom and expression and individuality and impulsiveness and spontaneity. It wasn't so Apollonian; it was more Dionysian.

I learned what a lot of women have to do is make the guys in the room think it was their idea, and then you back them up.

Love is a two way dream.

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.

I am one of the most idiosyncratic people around.