Feminists bore me to death. I follow my instinct and if that supports young girls in any way, great. But I'd rather they saw it more as a lesson about following their own instincts rather than imitating somebody.

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 life together and seeing the whole picture.

I'm not going to talk like I know about politics, because I'm a total amateur, but maybe I can be a spokesperson for people who aren't normally interested in politics.

I've always appreciated working with people I have chemistry with, who are friends, and where you feel that the work is growing while you are getting to know each other better.

Sometimes when I write lyrics there are images in them, usually on a quite simplistic level, like colors. But most often music comes first and then later I sit down with visual people and we chat about what we want to do. I don't look at myself as a visual artist. I make music.

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. So I have to plan days when I'm not doing anything. I find that a bit boring, but it's necessary.

When I was a teenager in Iceland people would throw rocks and shout abuse at me because they thought I was weird. I never got that in London no matter what I wore.

I do believe sometimes discipline is very important. I'm not just lying around like a lazy cow all the time.

Football is a fertility festival. Eleven sperm trying to get into the egg. I feel sorry for the goalkeeper.

I'm a fountain of blood. In the shape of a girl.

There's no map to human behaviour.

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.

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.

I am a grateful... grapefruit.

I feel like the people from Iceland have a different relationship with their country than other places. Most Icelandic people are really proud to be from there, and we don't have embarrassments like World War II where we were cruel to other people.

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

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

I get obsessed by little nerdy things in my corner that no one else is interested in.

Compared to America or Europe, God isn't a big part of our lives here. I don't know anyone here who goes to church when he's had a rough divorce or is going through depression. We go out into nature instead.

A lot of the time I get obsessed by little nerdy things in my corner that no one else is interested in. I have that nerd factor in my character.

I am one of the most idiosyncratic people around.

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.

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

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

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

People are always asking me about eskimos, but there are no eskimos in Iceland.

Singing is like a celebration of oxygen.

For a person as obsessed with music as I am, I always hear a song in the back of my head, all the time, and that usually is my own tune. I've done that all my life.

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

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

I do try and wear stuff by unknown designers, and I make sure I pay because if nothing else I have money.