There have been so many articles written in the papers that want to just eliminate the environmental values business and just build aluminum factories now. But there have been an equal amount of articles of people saying listen, you just went on a money binge, are you gonna go on another binge now?

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.

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

I'm going to prove the impossible really exists

I think after Iceland's independence in 1944, we were not very sure of ourselves and our confidence was really low. It took one generation to sort of get over that. I'm second generation. My parents were born in 1945-46. Our movement at the punk times was like, we can sing in Icelandic, we are strong.

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

I do believe sometimes discipline is very important. I'm not just lying around like a lazy cow all the time.