Sometimes, when I have a lot of ideas and I want to do a lot of things, or when I'm traveling, I lose energy and I can't do as many things as I want. So I have to plan days when I'm not doing anything. I find that a bit boring, but it's necessary.

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.

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

It's invisible, what women do. It's not rewarded as much.

I have always had a certain song in my head, a certain chemistry of sounds.

I never want to know the range of my voice. It has to be impulsive, and I don't want to kill the mystery.

I have written most of my melodies walking and I feel it is definitely one of the most helpful ways of sewing all of the different things in your life together and seeing the whole picture.