Marcel Wanders Quotes

I don't feel 'vibes' when I enter a building - don't feel the previous owners looking down on me. But I do know when a place feels friendly.

To me, skin is alien and kind of weird; it weirds me out. It's strange, but it's also really intimate and personal; it's living, organic. That's how I want the music to sound; I want it to feel alien and strange, but also like it's got a heartbeat, like it's got a soul, like it's not made by a robot.

My house feels like a proper home. It's very relaxed with a hippyish vibe.

The spaces I want to be in are nurturing and soft and saturated with color. Our cities don't have enough of that, and as humans we need it.

There's something about a humid, dusky evening that's kind of sexy.

I wanted people to come to the restaurant and feel at home, so I put it in a house.

My design preference tends towards warmth, comfort, and minimalism.

It's hard to make music that's sexy that's not cheesy.

The rumba is the dance of love and lust.

Nothing like mashed potatoes when you're feeling blue. Nothing like getting into bed with a bowl of hot mashed potatoes already loaded with butter, and methodically adding a thin, cold slice of butter to every forkful.

I love the warmth of apple pie.

We honestly felt a bit more at home in the TV studio than we did in the recording studio.

What's so important with fashion imagery and with imagery in general is that it ultimately evokes an emotion.

I do have some songs where it is about my relationship with my husband, and it does get very personal.

This music really is us. We're not, like, a manufactured version.

Touch is incredibly important as part of the human experience. Our ancestors relied on human touch to form and strengthen bonds with each other. Touch can accelerate a feeling of connection and releases hormones in our body that engender trust and build connection.

One of my life's watchwords is 'hyggelig.' It's an untranslatable Danish term for getting together with friends and family and sitting around in a cosy atmosphere with nice food and wine and candles.

I wanted a simple one-bedroom apartment that would impress people when they walked in but that was otherwise extremely comfortable and useful.

I feel like truth resonates, and you can taste when something is synthetic.

Small places intrigue me. Whenever I tried moving to a larger city, I ran back to the hills.

There's this raw, basic quality people expect in my music.

Vancouver just feels comfortable to me.

I'd love to look incredibly glamorous, but I am a wholesome, comforting nanny type: I think I look like an advertisement for wholemeal flour or something.

Rock & roll doesn't belong on a grid. It belongs on a pulse - a natural pulse.