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I think after Iceland’s independence in 1944, we were not very sure of ourselves and our confidence was really low. It took one generation to sort of get over that. I’m second generation.
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Generation Parent Strong Thinking
As a singer-songwriter, what I do is write about how the human feels.
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Singers Songwriter Writing
There is this stereotype of Icelanders all believing in spirits, and I’ve played up to that a bit in interviews.
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Believe Interview Spirit
Everything that a guy says once, you have to say five times.
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Everything Guy Say Times
I’m a whisper in water.
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Emotion Water White
And then within the past 10 years Iceland discovered the stock market and it just went, went, went, went, went. I think it hit a roof and it’s just crashed. Just a small percentage of the nation did a lot of damage.
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Crashed Discovered Nation Percentage Roof
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
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
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
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
There’s more to Life than this
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Life Magical More
I love being a very personal singer-songwriter, but I also like being a scientist or explorer.
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Scientists Singers Songwriter
It’s incredible how nature sets females up to take care of people, and yet it is tricky for them to take care of themselves.
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Care Females People
I’m self-sufficient. I spend a lot of time on my own and I shut off quite easily. When I communicate, I communicate 900 per cent, then I shut off, which scares people sometimes.
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Communicate Easily People Scare Self
I miss you, but I haven’t met you yet!
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Havens Mets Missing
In school, I guess I was a difficult, know-it-all type of student… I was always complaining that music education was too academic.
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Complaining School Students

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