In school, I guess I was a difficult, know-it-all type of student... I was always complaining that music education was too academic.

Create a paradise anywhere you go.

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.

Icelandic peoples were the ones who memorized sagas... We were the first rappers of Europe.

If you want to make something happen that hasn't happened before , you've got to allow yourself to make a lot of mistakes.

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

I want to support young girls who are in their 20s now and tell them: You're not just imagining things. It's tough. Everything that a guy says once, you have to say five times. Girls now are also faced with different problems. I've been guilty of one thing: After being the only girl in bands for 10 years, I learned - the hard way - that if I was going to get my ideas through, I was going to have to pretend that they - men - had the ideas.