I feel Icelandic people are really good at gathering together information and brain power. We're better at that than some kind of Las Vegas money gambling. I mean, I really admire the characteristics in Icelandics, this adventureism. We are famous for it. We are addicted to risk to the point of being foolhardy. And I think that is great in brain power stuff.

Emotions weren’t created to just lie around. You should experience things to the full. I’ve got a sense of the clock ticking. We have to feel all those things to the maximum. Like, I don’t eat a lot but I really love eating. And I like being precise and particular. There is a certain respect in that. If you can do your day depending on how you feel, and enjoy things as well.

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 never want to know the range of my voice. It has to be impulsive, and I don't want to kill the mystery.

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.

There is this stereotype of Icelanders all believing in spirits, and I've played up to that a bit in interviews.

I think every year brings unknowns that you have to deal with and handle, confront and embrace.