In 2008, I was more just thinking about using the touchscreen for writing the songs. From there I started thinking about how I visualised music.

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

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

Nature is our chapel.

Usually when you see females in movies, they feel like they have these metallic structures around them, they are caged in by male energy.

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

If you want to make something happen that hasn't happened before , you've got to allow yourself to make a lot of mistakes.

Now that rock is turning 50, it's become classical in itself. It's interesting to see that development.

I find it so amazing when people tell me that electronic music has no soul. You can't blame the computer. If there's no soul in the music, it's because nobody put it there.

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

I am one of the most idiosyncratic people around.

For you to be able to turn on the light in the darkness, you have to live in the light.

Beauty without expression is boring.

When we look into the eyes of others with compassion, our personal biases suddenly begin to fade away. Then, we can see others for what they truly are, Human.

We meet all life's greatest tests alone.

I'm mainstream. Always have been.

The great men of a nation reach out to all mankind. They are unifying, not divisive; internationally conciliating and still great nationally.

I'm more relaxed when I can hear the beat clearly all the time I'm singing.

Each one of us is a statistical impossibility around which hover a million other lives that were never destined to be born.

These are not easy questions. Who am I? Why am I here? They're not easy because the human being isn't wired to function as an individual.

After one has abandoned a belief in God, poetry is that essence which takes its place as life's redemption.