Beziehungen / Relationships Die meisten / Most Festlegung / Establishing Frauen / Women In erster Linie / Primarily Konversation / Conversation Rapport Sprache / Language Verbindungen / Connections Verhandeln / Negotiating Weg / Way
Poetry is above all a concentration of the power of language, which is the power of our ultimate relationship to everything in the universe.
For me, relationship is very important. I can lose money, but I cannot lose a relationship. The test is, at the end of a conversation or a negotiation, both must smile.
I do chat to my mother in Norwegian, particularly when we want a secret conversation. It is useful that way.
It's like breathing in and out to me. It's like having a conversation with someone who isn't there. Because it has to be addressed to somebody - not a particular person, or very rarely.
Usually, when Nirvana made music, there wasn't a lot of conversation. We wanted everything to be surreal. We didn't want to have some contrived composition.
Our most tragic error may have been our inability to establish a rapport and a confidence with the press and television with the communication media. I don't think the press has understood me.
History creates comprehensibility primarily by arranging facts meaningfully and only in a very limited sense by establishing strict causal connections.
If I were to continue to work in an established mode, it stands to reason the work would be limited by this - that it would never surpass the prior work in quality.
I'm into people's emotional lives and relationships and the complications of living. That's my turf.