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I love hiking in Iceland most, there are lots of brilliant paths.
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In Reykjavik, Iceland, where I was born, you are in the middle of nature surrounded by mountains and ocean. But you are still in a capital in Europe. So I have never understood why I have to choose between nature or urban.
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Usually when you see females in movies, they feel like they have these metallic structures around them, they are caged in by male energy.
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Living in a capital in Europe but still surrounded by mountains and ocean, my relationship to music was strongest walking to school and back. I would sing to myself and very quickly started mapping out my melodies to landscapes - at the time I just thought it was very matter of fact, a common thing to do.
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In elections in Iceland, I have always been an abstainer. It seems like politics is such a small bundle of self-important people, who don't have much to do with things I'm interested in.
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I think every year brings unknowns that you have to deal with and handle, confront and embrace.
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Solar power, wind power, the way forward is to collaborate with nature - it's the only way we are going to get to the other end of the 21st century.
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I'm a bit of a nerd, I wouldn't mind working in a shop selling records, or having a radio show where I could play obscure singles.
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If nothing else, I have money.
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I always wanted to be a farmer. There is a tradition of that in my family.
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I think religion is a mistake - I'm exhausted by its self-righteousness. I think atheists should start screaming for attention like religious folks do.
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It's incredible how nature sets females up to take care of people, and yet it is tricky for them to take care of themselves.
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I mostly write on my own, walking, outside.
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The good thing about Pro Tools is you can actually hear what you're working on, so it doesn't just become this intellectual idea. But Pro Tools can be dangerous, too. It can make things sterile.
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In order to actually have a touchscreen in front of me and somehow still be connected to nature, I needed to be able to incorporate natural elements into the song structures. Because that's always been my song-writing accompaniment: nature.
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I am one of the most idiosyncratic people around.
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I bought a laptop in 1999, and it was quite liberating, because I could make a lot of my own decisions.
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I'd done three solo albums in a row, and that's quite narcissistic.
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Since I was a kid, I always wanted to figure out how to make a bass line that was a pendulum - like, gravity would control it, and then you could make it play different notes.
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There's no map to human behaviour.
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Singing is like a celebration of oxygen.
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When I was a punk teenager, I rebelled because lots of people in Iceland think that foreigners are evil and that if you don't wear woolen hats and eat sheep, you're betraying your heritage.
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I went to music school, and I guess I was a difficult, know-it-all type of student.
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Being a musician is very easy. My house is full of musical instruments. There's a lot of music, always.
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