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People ask me questions like, “Oh, you look so theatrical in your photographs. Is that what you’re like when you walk down the street?” It’s like, “Of course not.” It’s such a silly question – it’s like being theatrical is a crime.

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I feel like the people from Iceland have a different relationship with their country than other places.
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Country Iceland Place War
Sometimes when I write lyrics there are images in them, usually on a quite simplistic level, like colors. But most often music comes first and then later I sit down with visual people and we chat about what we want to do. I don’t look at myself as a visual artist. I make music.
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Artist Color Image Writing
I learned what a lot of women have to do is make the guys in the room think it was their idea, and then you back them up.
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Guy Ideas Thinking
Formats are just illusions, and it’s about the relationship between the person that makes music and the person that listens to music.
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Illusion Iron Make Mold Music Relationship
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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Everybody Friend Glue Technology
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
I have always had a certain song in my head, a certain chemistry of sounds.
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Chemistry Song Sound
You’re a coward if you don’t stand up. Not for you, but for women. Say something.
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Coward Something Stand
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
People are always going to need physicality; they’re going to want to meet other people even more. I’ve got faith in the physical angle. People have their needs. They won’t forget about them.
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Needs People Physically Wants
I don’t like records that are the same from beginning to end, that are too styled and slick.
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Beginning Perfect Records Stick Thinking
Now that rock is turning 50, it’s become classical in itself. It’s interesting to see that development.
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Interesting Rocks Turning
I’ve never done an album like this. With Biophilia, I was being like Kofi Annan – I had to be the pacifist to try to unite the impossible.
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Biophilia Done Strange Trying
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 want to support young girls who are in their 20s now and tell them: You’re not just imagining things. It’s tough.
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Girl Guy Imagination Support
I guess I’m quite used to not being understood rather than being understood.
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Guess Understood Used

People ask me questions like, “Oh, you look so theatrical in your photographs. Is that what you’re like when you walk down the street?” It’s like, “Of course not.” It’s such a silly question – it’s like being theatrical is a crime.

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People ask me questions like, “Oh, you look so theatrical in your photographs. Is that what you’re like when you walk down the street?” It’s like, “Of course not.” It’s such a silly question – it’s like being theatrical is a crime.

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