[Bob Dylan] builds his lyrics, of course, from personal experience, but it's also a literary work. He draws heavily on his knowledge of American lyric tradition as well as European modernism. But he should let the Nobel Prize Committee know if he is accepting it or not.

The option is always on the table. When we [with Bjork] were starting as creative kids in the Eighties, we found each other. I was 19, she was 16 and a friendship was made.

Much of my time is taken up by reading, researching and trying out ideas.

One thing for sure is it will be written in the Icelandic language. All of my literary work is.

A great number of tourists have been flocking Iceland and those numbers are growing every year. That also raises questions like "How do we receive people?" and "How do we present our country?"

Literature acknowledges that life is complicated.

[Bob Dylan] is a worthy laureate for the Nobel Prize.