There's more to Life than this

Declare independence, don't let them do that to you!

I get highs, to be totally honest, in second-hand shops. My hunting instinct, I expect, really kicks in.

Sometimes when I write lyrics there are images in them, usually on a quite simplistic level, like colors. But most often music comes first and then later I sit down with visual people and we chat about what we want to do. I don't look at myself as a visual artist. I make music.

There's so many songs about heartbreak that exist this in the world, because music is somehow the perfect medium to express something like this.

What's happening now in Iceland is we grew and grew and grew from being one of the poorest nations in the world to being one of the richest. And then within the past 10 years Iceland discovered the stock market and it just went, went, went, went, went. I think it hit a roof and it's just crashed. Just a small percentage of the nation did a lot of damage.

In 2008, I was more just thinking about using the touchscreen for writing the songs. From there I started thinking about how I visualised music.