I just feel like making things solar-powered and wind-powered should be as easy as using an iPad.

The relationship changes as you learn more about people, and the work sort of takes on its own life. I enjoy this very much.

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

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

I'm not as religious as some people about "the album." To be honest, that was a product of a format. You had vinyl, and you could fit five songs on each side, and that's 45 minutes. You had A-side songs and B-side songs; I always loved the first song on side B. And there's nothing wrong with that. Prog albums of the 70s adapted to that format very much. But not all musicians want to create 45 minutes of music that has to be listened to in chronological order.

I do try and wear stuff by unknown designers, and I make sure I pay because if nothing else I have money.

As a singer-songwriter, what I do is write about how the human feels.