Maybe it's just a personal thing, but I get so much grounding from Iceland because I know it's always going to be there. I have a very happy, healthy relationship with the country, so it's really easy to go everywhere because I always have Iceland to go back to. It's sort of a contradiction, but that's how it works somehow.

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 get obsessed by little nerdy things in my corner that no one else is interested in.

The reason I do interviews is because I'm protecting my songs.

It takes a long time to fully become who you are.

I get embarrassed listening to my last CDs. I've got a lot of work to do, let's put it that way.

Singing is like a celebration of oxygen.