Icelandic people are really educated. But maybe we are at where the people in the States were 50 years ago, where they think that stuff that isn't done with a hammer or physical power is not a job. It's that backwards.

i'm back at my cliff still throwing things off i listen to the sounds they make on their way down i follow him with my eyes 'till they crash imagine what my body would sound like slamming against those rocks.

Create a paradise anywhere you go.

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.

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. Maybe that was a strange, personal job between me and myself, to show how overreaching I was being as a woman. The only way I could express that was by comparing it to the universe.

If travel is searching and home what's been found, I'm not stopping. I'm going hunting.

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.