I Feel Like The People From Iceland

I Don't Like Records That Are The Same From Beginning To End, That Are Too Styled And Slick. 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.

What's Happening Now In Iceland Is We Grew And Grew And Grew From Being One Of The Poorest Nations In The World To Being One Of The Richest. 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.

[as A Kid] I Felt It Was Really Weird That Music Schools Behaved Like A Conveyor Belt To Make Performers For Those Symphony Orchestras. If You Were Really Good And Practiced Your Violin For A Few Hours A Day For Ten Years You Might Be Invited To This Vip Elite Club. For Me Music Was Not About That. It Is About Freedom And Expression And Individuality And Impulsiveness And Spontaneity. It Wasn't So Apollonian; It Was More Dionysian.

I Love England. It's No Coincidence It's The First Place I Moved To For A More Cosmopolitan Life, Which Is The Only Thing Iceland Lacks.

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.