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You get inspired and you can go write one song from that, and then you go back and play a few shows. If I could’ve done that in the 90s, I would have.
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Back Done Few Inspired Show
There’s definitely, definitely, definitely, no logic to human behaviour . . . There’s no map And a compass Wouldn’t help at all
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Behavior Helping Maps
Sometimes, when I have a lot of ideas and I want to do a lot of things, or when I’m traveling,
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Energy Ideas Want
I guess I’m quite used to not being understood rather than being understood.
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Guess Understood Used
I have written most of my melodies walking and I feel it is definitely one of the most helpful ways of sewing all of the different things in your life together and seeing the whole picture.
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Different Together Way
People from the rock and roll world have felt for years that electronic music had no soul, but now electronic music can not only have soul but have all the shapes in the world.
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Electronic Music Rocks World Years
I have always had a certain song in my head, a certain chemistry of sounds.
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Chemistry Song Sound
When I was 20, political music was the uncoolest thing on earth. But when Bush got elected, that was the first time I started actually reading the news.
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News Political Reading
I have a very happy, healthy relationship with the country, so it’s really easy to go everywhere because I always have Iceland to go back to. It’s sort of a contradiction, but that’s how it works somehow.
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Contradiction Country Everywhere Relationship
Maybe that was a strange, personal job between me and myself, to show how overreaching I was being as a woman. The only way I could express that was by comparing it to the universe.
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Express Myself Overreaching Show Universe
I’ve been traveling in Guatemala in the rainforest, and here all these houses are made of sticks. It seems so easy to make one.
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Guatemala House Sticks
I feel the 21st century is another new age. Not only can we collaborate again with nature, but we have to. It’s an emergency.
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Age Century Collaborate Emergencies
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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Country Healthy Iceland
When I write a song, I see a tunnel, and then the chorus is an open space, or the bassline is doing this shape. I see songs as a more of a geometric, spacial experience.
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Chorus Song Writing
People are always asking me about eskimos, but there are no eskimos in Iceland.
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Asking Iceland People
Personally, I think choosing between men and women is like choosing between cake and ice cream. You’d be daft not to try both when there are so many different flavours.
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Cake Choosing Flavors Ice Cream Personally Women

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