I love hiking in Iceland most, there are lots of brilliant paths.

For a person as obsessed with music as I am, I always hear a song in the back of my head, all the time, and that usually is my own tune. I've done that all my life.

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

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.

I feel the 21st century is another new age. Not only can we collaborate again with nature, but we have to. It's an emergency.

I have nothing against Kanye West. Help me with this - I'm not dissing him - this is about how people talk about him. With the last album he did, he got all the best beatmakers on the planet at the time to make beats for him. A lot of the time, he wasn't even there. Yet no one would question his authorship for a second.

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.