[As a kid] I felt it was really weird that music schools behaved like a conveyor belt to make performers for those symphony orchestras. If you were r….

I find it very difficult to draw a line between what's sex and what isn't. It can be very, very sexy to drive a car, and completely unsexy to flirt w….

Over the last 10 years, there have been so many incredible albums created in bedrooms by people who never would've gotten an album deal..

I don't expect people to get me. That would be quite arrogant. I think there are a lot of people out there in the world that nobody gets..

I always wanted to be a farmer. There is a tradition of that in my family..

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

As a singer-songwriter, what I do is write about how the human feels..

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

What comes first? The melody, always. It's all about singing the melodies live in my head. They go in circles. I guess I'm quite conservative and rom….

When I met Apple, I made it very clear that I am an old punk and I have never done commercials or been sponsored. And I wasn't after their money..

I love England. It's no coincidence it's the first place I moved to for a more cosmopolitan life, which is the only thing Iceland lacks..

Icelandic people are really educated. But maybe we are at where the people in the States were 50 years ago, where they think that stuff that isn't do….

I think every year brings unknowns that you have to deal with and handle, confront and embrace..

I have nothing against Kanye West. Help me with this - I'm not dissing him - this is about how people talk about him. With the last album he did, he ….

There's more to Life than this.

I would like to teach music. It's weird the way they teach music in schools like Julliard these days..

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

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..

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

If you can make nature and technology friends, then you can make everyone friends; you can make everyone intact. That's what women do a lot - they're….

I'm not very good at doing two things at the same time. I've never been good at the walk and bubblegum thing. I've been doing this 16 hours a day. I ….