"I've walked a lot in the mountains in Iceland. And as you come to a new valley, as you come to a new landscape, you have a certain view. If you stand still, the landscape doesn't necessarily tell you how big it is. It doesn't really tell you what you're looking at. The moment you start to move the mountain starts to move."

"It would be wrong to say that the city of Berlin is not regulated. What I think is more interesting is to what extent a city creates a sort of safe haven for its users, so that people feel confident that the city works on their behalf."

"I myself have already spent a third of my life in Germany, first in Cologne and then, since 1994, in Berlin."

"I was in Beijing a month ago working on the smoke project in collaboration with an architect there, and I was asked very directly whether it was safe to breathe in the smoke. They did not have confidence in the museum not to use harmful smoke, and they certainly didn't have confidence that the city would protect them from harmful smoke."

"We cannot have that relationship if we only dictate or threaten and condemn those who disagree."

"I can talk to my dad like he's my manager, and put 'Dad' on the back burner. We've been doing it since I was 13."

"On the other side of that coin, and far outweighing it, is the fact that I've been able to use genre of Fantasy/Horror and express my opinion, talk a little about society, do a little bit of satire and that's been great, man. A lot of people don't have that platform."

"Canadians can easily 'pass for American' as long as we don't accidentally use metric measurements or apologize when hit by a car."