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…

- Sjon

All authors secretly hope that their works will be read in 100 years' time and 200 years, and that they will somehow survive into the future.

- Sjon

Literature acknowledges that life is complicated.

- Sjon

Bjork is one of my oldest friends so we share the friendship and common roots. That is what we build on when we work together.

- Sjon

Now 10 percent of this population [in Iceland] of 330,000 people were born elsewhere - Polish, North Africans, Europeans, Americans - people are comi…

- Sjon

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 pe…

- Sjon

What literature brings to our times is always the fact that literature refuses to bring any simple or easy answers.

- Sjon

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

- Sjon

I have to face questions like, "Do I simply write the best text I possibly can? Do I specifically engage with contemporary issues? 'Do I consciously …

- Sjon