When I write a song, I see a tunnel, and then the chorus is an open space, or the bassline is doing this shape. I see songs as a more of a geometric, spacial experience.

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

I have to re-create the universe every morning when I wake up, and kill it in the evening.

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

When I was a teenager in Iceland people would throw rocks and shout abuse at me because they thought I was weird. I never got that in London no matter what I wore.

You're a coward if you don't stand up. Not for you, but for women. Say something.

I learned what a lot of women have to do is make the guys in the room think it was their idea, and then you back them up.