They design telephones to look great, but they sound horrible. I think it was about time that the other senses were celebrated.
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I will go in a room and hear the people perform and then change it through what I hear, not on paper. I can read music OK, but I probably rebelled a little – music changes into something else when you read it.
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You want people to take risks, and OK, they fail, but you don’t get the great stuff unless people are willing to risk and not play it safe. And maybe the Icelandic characteristic is better harnessed in these places than on the stock market.
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I don’t like records that are the same from beginning to end, that are too styled and slick.
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Everything that a guy says once, you have to say five times.
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I love being a very personal singer-songwriter, but I also like being a scientist or explorer.
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I’m a whisper in water.
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Usually when you see females in movies, they feel like they have these metallic structures around them, they are caged in by male energy.
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It’s important at that age to set up something, and then maybe afterwards you can go study your violin for 500 hours a week. But at least in the beginning you know about the options.
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We’re always mourning things that have died. It’s a bit much sometimes. These studios have no fresh air, and there’s this unwritten rule that they don’t have windows, either.
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Seventy per cent humidity is ideal for vocal cords.
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I miss you, but I haven’t met you yet!
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I’d done three solo albums in a row, and that’s quite narcissistic.
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I’m not that keen on fierce dictatorship. I think that sort of the point of working with somebody is them coming up with stuff and feeling free to do that.
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I’ve always had as many powerful, creative ladies in my life as I have men, and you could probably describe some of those relationships as romantic.
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I am one of the most idiosyncratic people around.
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I have to re-create the universe every morning when I wake up, and kill it in the evening.
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For a person as obsessed with music as I am, I always hear a song in the back of my head, all the time, and that usually is my own tune. I’ve done that all my life.
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Maybe it’s just a personal thing, but I get so much grounding from Iceland because I know it’s always going to be there.
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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.
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Pedaling through the dark currents, I find an accurate copy. A blue print of the pleasure in me.
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The English can be a very critical, unforgiving people, but criticism can be good. And this is a country that loves comedy.
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I knew if certain people recommended something, it would be good. There’s always going to be those people. It just depends on what they’re called: curators or radio jockeys or bloggers.
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With tons of chaotic supply on the internet, you’re going to have people who become very good at being curators or stylists. It’s the same sort of people that I used to go to record shops for.
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As a singer-songwriter, what I do is write about how the human feels.
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It’s a sign that you have a good work relationship if you don’t have to analyze. That’s usually a good sign within creative work.
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Over the last 10 years, there have been so many incredible albums created in bedrooms by people who never would’ve gotten an album deal.
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