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In 2008, I was more just thinking about using the touchscreen for writing the songs. From there I started thinking about how I visualised music.

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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
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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Failing Great People Risk Safe
It’s funny how the hippies and the punks tried to get rid of the conservatives, but they always seem to get the upper hand in the end.
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Conservatives Hands Hippie Upper
The reason I do interviews is because I’m protecting my songs.
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Interviews Reason Song
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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Albums People Years
Everything that a guy says once, you have to say five times.
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Everything Guy Say Times
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
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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Music Paper People Something
The reason I do photographs is to help people understand my music, so it’s very important that I am the same, emotionally, in the photographs as in the music.
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Eye Important People Photograph Understand
I’m a whisper in water.
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Emotion Water White
I find it so amazing when people tell me that electronic music has no soul. You can’t blame the computer. If there’s no soul in the music, it’s because nobody put it there.
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Music People Soul
Most people’s eyes are much better developed than their ears. If they see a certain emotion in the photograph, then they’ll understand the music.
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Developed Emotion Music Photograph Understanding
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
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
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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Country Criticism People
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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Either Mourning Unwritten Windows

In 2008, I was more just thinking about using the touchscreen for writing the songs. From there I started thinking about how I visualised music.

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