I'm a little nervous. Definitely. Especially coming from an album like Biophilia, which was about the universe. This is more of a traditional singer/songwriter thing. When I started writing, I fought against it. I thought it was way too boring and predictable. But most of the time, it just happens; there's nothing you can do. You have to let it be what it is.

Americans are so dumb!

I'm a fountain of blood. In the shape of a girl.

How could I be so immature to think you could replace the missing elements in me. How extremely lazy of me.

I am grateful... grapefruit.

I'd done three solo albums in a row, and that's quite narcissistic.

You want people to take risks, and OK, they fail, but you don't get the great stuff unless people are willing to risk and not play it safe. And maybe the Icelandic characteristic is better harnessed in these places than on the stock market.