Icelandic peoples were the ones who memorized sagas... We were the first rappers of Europe.

What probably confuses people is they know a lot about me, but it quite pleases me that there's more they don't know.

But I'm not interested in politics. I lose interest the microsecond it ceases to be emotional, when something becomes a political movement. What I'm interested in is emotions.

When I was 18, science, physics, and math were my favorite. I was a bit of a nerd - the only girl with a lot of boys at chess championships.

I've never done an album like this. With Biophilia, I was being like Kofi Annan - I had to be the pacifist to try to unite the impossible. Maybe that was a strange, personal job between me and myself, to show how overreaching I was being as a woman. The only way I could express that was by comparing it to the universe.

I don't really have an ego. I'm not that bothered.

Americans are so dumb!