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If travel is searching and home what's been found, I'm not stopping. I'm going hunting.
I went through an anti-Establishment phase and thought we should get everything for free.
I have to re-create the universe every morning when I wake up, and kill it in the evening.
Icelandic peoples were the ones who memorized sagas... We were the first rappers of Europe.
I love being a very personal singer-songwriter, but I also like being a scientist or explorer.
I think every year brings unknowns that you have to deal with and handle, confront and embrace.
Pedaling through the dark currents, I find an accurate copy. A blue print of the pleasure in me.
I get embarrassed listening to my last CDs. I've got a lot of work to do, let's put it that way.
There is such a big chunk of me that is David Attenborough. I think he is my biggest inspiration.
I just feel like making things solar-powered and wind-powered should be as easy as using an iPad.
I would like to teach music. It's weird the way they teach music in schools like Julliard these days.
Being a musician is very easy. My house is full of musical instruments. There's a lot of music, always.
Now that rock is turning 50, it's become classical in itself. It's interesting to see that development.
I bought a laptop in 1999, and it was quite liberating, because I could make a lot of my own decisions.
I get highs, to be totally honest, in second-hand shops. My hunting instinct, I expect, really kicks in.
I do try and wear stuff by unknown designers, and I make sure I pay because if nothing else I have money.
I never want to know the range of my voice. It has to be impulsive, and I don't want to kill the mystery.
How could I be so immature to think you could replace the missing elements in me. How extremely lazy of me.
I sometimes fall into the trap of doing what I think I should be doing rather than what I want to be doing.
Football is a fertility festival. Eleven sperm trying to get into the egg. I feel sorry for the goalkeeper.
I do believe sometimes discipline is very important. I'm not just lying around like a lazy cow all the time.
There is this stereotype of Icelanders all believing in spirits, and I've played up to that a bit in interviews.
Nature hasn't gone anywhere. It is all around us, all the planets, galaxies and so on. We are nothing in comparison.
What probably confuses people is they know a lot about me, but it quite pleases me that there's more they don't know.
Most people in Iceland are blonde and blue-eyed. I was nicknamed 'China girl' in school 'cos they thought I looked Asian.
I learned what a lot of women have to do is make the guys in the room think it was their idea, and then you back them up.
If you want to make something happen that hasn't happened before , you've got to allow yourself to make a lot of mistakes.
All we had ever heard about record company people is that they were vampires and criminals...and they killed Elvis Presley.
The English can be a very critical, unforgiving people, but criticism can be good. And this is a country that loves comedy.
While you're setting something up that's educational for yourself, you have an opportunity to teach others at the same time.
The relationship changes as you learn more about people, and the work sort of takes on its own life. I enjoy this very much.
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.
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.
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.
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.
There's definitely, definitely, definitely, no logic to human behaviour . . . There's no map And a compass Wouldn't help at all
There's something about the rhythm of walking, how, after about an hour and a half, the mind and body can't help getting in sync.
It's a sign that you have a good work relationship if you don't have to analyze. That's usually a good sign within creative work.
I'm a bit of a nerd, I wouldn't mind working in a shop selling records, or having a radio show where I could play obscure singles.
In school, I guess I was a difficult, know-it-all type of student... I was always complaining that music education was too academic.
The English eat all sorts of birds - pigeons, ducks, sparrows - but if you tell them you eat puffin, you might as well come from Mars.
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.
Believe it or not, I'm a bit clumsy with technology. It's probably why I'm so excited about the touchscreen - even an idiot can use it!
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.
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.
Usually when you see females in movies, they feel like they have these metallic structures around them, they are caged in by male energy.
I never really understood the word ‘loneliness’. As far as I was concerned, I was in an orgy with the sky and the ocean, and with nature.
I don't expect people to get me. That would be quite arrogant. I think there are a lot of people out there in the world that nobody gets.
National Geographic contacted me about getting on their label, and I was like, 'Wow, I want to be label mates with the sharks and lemurs!'
The funeral business is so manipulative emotionally. I would want to be thrown into the sea or burned - something that's not a big hassle.