“There is this stereotype of Icelanders all believing in spirits, and I’ve played up to that a bit in interviews.”

You shouldn’t let poets lie to you.

i’m back at my cliff still throwing things off i listen to the sounds they make on their way down i follow him with my eyes ’till they crash imagine what my body would sound like slamming against those rocks.

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.

In school, I guess I was a difficult, know-it-all type of student… I was always complaining that music education was too academic.

I’d done three solo albums in a row, and that’s quite narcissistic.

I feel like the people from Iceland have a different relationship with their country than other places.

I get highs, to be totally honest, in second-hand shops. My hunting instinct, I expect, really kicks in.

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.

Everything is so designed and airbrushed and Botoxed, it makes us think, ‘Oh, everybody’s perfect except me. Everything’s smooth except me.’ But nothing is smooth.

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.

I do try and wear stuff by unknown designers, and I make sure I pay because if nothing else I have money.

I definitely can feel the third or fourth feminist wave in the air, so maybe this is a good time to open that Pandora’s box a little bit and air it out.

i thrive best hermit style. with a beard and a pipe.

Everything that a guy says once, you have to say five times.

If nothing else, I have money.

I want to support young girls who are in their 20s now and tell them: You’re not just imagining things. It’s tough. Everything that a guy says once, you have to say five times.