"Odd how we focus on studying wars at at school to form our 'education'. No wonder we know so little about making and forging peace as adults."

“The only sense we still respect is eyesight, probably because it is so closely attached to the brain. Go into any American house at random, you will find something - a plastic flower, false tiles, some imitation something - something which can be appreciated as material only if apprehended by eyesight alone. Don't we go sightseeing in cars, thinking we can experience a landscape by looking at it through glass?”

“When I have a cocktail, I love a vodka and cranberry. But when I was a kid my mother was really against drinking, because it was so bad for your skin. She'd say, "Stephanie, it's much better to wash your face with vodka."”

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“O' beautiful for spacious skies But now those skies are threatening They're beating plowshares into swords For this tired old man that we elected king Armchair warriors often fail And we've been poisoned by these fairy tales The lawyers clean up all details Since daddy had to lie But I know a place where we can go And wash away this sin We'll sit and watch the clouds roll by And the tall grass wave in the wind Just lay your head back on the ground And let your hair spill all around me Offer up your best defence But this is the end This is the end of the innocence”

“So in the near future, two or three years, people in Kyrgyzstan will experience a better life.”

“Girls are losing their virginity at 15, 16. I'm not promoting that. But my songs are talking... about me becoming a man.”

“Sheer animated fantasy is still my first and deepest production impulse.”

“How could I be so immature to think you could replace the missing elements in me. How extremely lazy of me.”

“It's true, people don't imagine I'd be particularly woody.”