Now That Rock Is Turning 50, It's

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. My Parents Were Born In 1945-46. Our Movement At The Punk Times Was Like, We Can Sing In Icelandic, We Are Strong.

There's So Many Songs About Heartbreak That Exist This In The World, Because Music Is Somehow The Perfect Medium To Express Something Like This.

But I'm Not Interested In Politics. I Lose Interest The Microsecond It Ceases To Be Emotional, When Something Becomes A Political Movement. What I'm Interested In Is Emotions.

Compared To America Or Europe, God Isn't A Big Part Of Our Lives Here. I Don't Know Anyone Here Who Goes To Church When He's Had A Rough Divorce Or Is Going Through Depression. We Go Out Into Nature Instead.

I Find It Very Difficult To Draw A Line Between What's Sex And What Isn't. It Can Be Very, Very Sexy To Drive A Car, And Completely Unsexy To Flirt With Someone At A Bar.