I love being a very personal singer-songwriter, but I also like being a scientist or explorer..

I guess I'm quite used to not being understood rather than being understood..

Seventy per cent humidity is ideal for vocal cords..

I've written arrangements for choirs and strings in the past, but I usually write music with my voice or a keyboard and then I'll get someone who is ….

I never really understood the word ‘loneliness’. As far as I was concerned, I was in an orgy with the sky and the ocean, and with nature..

If I had a philosophy, it's that I support the beautiful side of anarchy..

I have to re-create the universe every morning when I wake up, and kill it in the evening..

It's a sign that you have a good work relationship if you don't have to analyze. That's usually a good sign within creative work..

Iceland sets a world-record. The United Nations asked people from all over the world a series of questions. Iceland stuck out on one thing. When we w….

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.….

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

You want people to take risks, and OK, they fail, but you don't get the great stuff unless people are willing to risk and not play it safe. And maybe….

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 lif….

I just feel like making things solar-powered and wind-powered should be as easy as using an iPad..

Maybe I'll be a feminist in my old age..

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….

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

I'm not sure if it's because I'm older and I'm thinking about family more, but I'm trying to set up this thing where I can play in one city for a mon….

I sometimes fall into the trap of doing what I think I should be doing rather than what I want to be doing..

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

Being a musician is very easy. My house is full of musical instruments. There's a lot of music, always..