1. I'm a fountain of blood. In the shape of a girl. 2. I do believe sometimes discipline is very important. I'm not just lying around like a lazy cow all the time.
3. There's no map to human behaviour.
4. 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.
6. Football is a fertility festival. Eleven sperm trying to get into the egg. I feel sorry for the goalkeeper.
7. 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.
8. I always wanted to be a farmer. There is a tradition of that in my family.
9. I get obsessed by little nerdy things in my corner that no one else is interested in.
11. I would like to teach music. It's weird the way they teach music in schools like Julliard these days.
12. I am a grateful... grapefruit.
13. I am one of the most idiosyncratic people around.
14. I get embarrassed listening to my last CDs. I've got a lot of work to do, let's put it that way.
15. I love being a very personal singer-songwriter, but I also like being a scientist or explorer.
16. I sometimes fall into the trap of doing what I think I should be doing rather than what I want to be doing.
18. 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.
19. 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.
20. If nothing else, I have money.
21. It's funny how the hippies and the punks tried to get rid of the conservatives, but they always seem to get the upper hand in the end.
22. Maybe I'll be a feminist in my old age.
23. Nature is our chapel.
25. People are always asking me about eskimos, but there are no eskimos in Iceland.
26. People that complete other people's vision are understated.
27. The English can be a very critical, unforgiving people, but criticism can be good. And this is a country that loves comedy.
28. The reason I do interviews is because I'm protecting my songs.
29. There is this stereotype of Icelanders all believing in spirits, and I've played up to that a bit in interviews.
30. Usually when you see females in movies, they feel like they have these metallic structures around them, they are caged in by male energy.
32. There are certain emotions in your body that not even your best friend can sympathize with, but you will find the right film or the right book, and it will understand you.
33. I mean, the human race, we are a tribe, let's face it, and let's stop all this religious bullshit. I think everybody, or at least a lot of my friends, are just so exhausted with this whole self-importance of religious people. Just drop it. We're all fucking animals, so let's just make some universal tribal beat. We're pagan. Let's just march.
34. I'm a whisper in water.
35. I never really understood the word "loneliness". As far as I was concerned, I was in an orgy with the sky and the ocean, and with nature.
36. I'm no buddhist, but this is fu**ing enlightmentment!
38. I thrive best hermit style.With a beard and a pipe.
40. If you feel like a train is running through your head, it is. And if you feel like putting eggs inside your bottom, you should. (Details)
41. Life wins death - one-nil. (Bust#8 Fall 1996)
42. A keyboard shall not pretend it is a violin; it shall be proud to be a keyboard. (Aftonbladet June 1996)
43. Singing is like a celebration of oxygen. (Arena March 1996)
45. You can be creative just by driving a taxi but you have a great sense of humor - I consider that very creative. (Bust#8 Fall 1996)
46. Inside...We're all still wet.
47. I don't like in-between stuff. I love really, really sweet stuff like chocolate cakes and then I love curry, vindaloo, do you know what I mean? I guess I'm an over emotional person. I'm very, very happy or I'm very, very this or very, very that. Always two verys. (Hot Press 1994)
49. You just have to be an airplane and watch the city from above. Just watch. And this place is alive, and if you're not going to be alive, and refuse all those things in, you're fucked. (Details)
50. It's your duty to use what you've got and not just put yourself to sleep or function like a robot. It doesn't matter what job you do, to wake up in the morning and actually find that day exciting is the biggest victory you can do. (Bust#8 Fall 1996)
51. Just at the moment, I'm quite obsessed with zero. (Arena March 1995)
52. That's my mother, the ocean. (Interview 1995)
53. I think everyone should sing. No two people tend to sing the same way; it's like fingerprints. (1995)
55. I have to click people into now. What are you feeling now? That's what I'm about. (Arena March 1995)
56. My favourite subject at school was mathematics - which is closely related to music. People who get one usually get the other. (Arena March 1995)
57. I have to re-create the universe every morning when I wake up. And kill it in the evening.
(Interview 1995)
58. I' ve got a purple allergy now. (Arena March 1995)
61. The moment you're trying to satisfy others than yourself, you're not satisfying anyone. That's my little theory. (Agenda September 1993)
62. When my friends show their ugly sides to me, I'm almost honored. (Bust#8 Fall 1996)
63. I think no two people have the same religion. (Arena March 1995)
65. I'm claustrophobic and I'm obsessed with oxygen. I can't deal with smoke or pollution of any kind. (Hot Press 1994)
68. If you're just a consumer, it gets to a point where you don't get a kick out of it any more, Oh, another glass of champagne. So fucking what? (Arena March 1995)
69. I feel very strongly that the world is full of actors who are racing car drivers, and racing car drivers that are actors. (Blink)
71. I'm supposed to be run by Pluto. It's like a fairy tale, it simplifies things. (Interview 1995)
72. I'm obsessed with boats. It's freedom. (Interview 1995)
73. All people have their own way of dealing with everyday problems. Some go for walks, others get drunk and some get laid. I write songs. (Agenda September 1993)
75. I've got my own religion. Iceland set a world record. The United Nations asked people from all over the world a series of questions. Iceland stuck out on one thing. When we were asked what do we believe, 90 % said: "ourselves". I think I'm in that group. If I get into trouble, there's no God or Allah to sort me out. I have to do it myself. (Hot Press 1994)
76. Language is like a signpost. Sort of saying: "OK, if you turn right here, you'll meet a happy feeling. And if you turn second left there, you'll get a bit melancholic and start reminiscing". That's what language is about. (Arena March 1995)
78. The more selfish you are, the more unselfish you are in reality. (Agenda September 1993)
79. In Iceland, even the hippies are workaholics. (Hot Press 1994)
80. By the time I was seven I was completely bored with guitar and drums. (Hot Press 1994)
82. I started singing with the whole of my body. The engineers usually end up using the same kind of microphones as they put on a stand-up bass, because it's got a big body. (Interview 1995)
83. But with all those occult things, you can use them either way. Some people use them to make excuses for themselves. But you can use them another way, because there's more to things than we can see. (Arena March 1995)
85. My biggest strength and my greatest weakness is that I can't do the same thing twice. It has to be spontaneous. That's why I'm doing pop, not some contemporary modern minimalist shit. (Arena March 1995)
86. I've got a lot of courage, but I've also got a lot of fear. You should allow yourself to be scared. It's one of the prime emotions. You might almost enjoy it, funny as it sounds, and find that you can get over it and deal with it. If you ignore these things, you miss so much. (Interview 1995)
88. I have been obsessed with playing on glass. Mozart made a glass organ with big bowls made of glass immersed in water. When you play on it, it sounds like you're rubbing a brandy glass. (Aftonbladet June 1996)
90. But… but… these are the people that made the Busby Berkeley movies, yeah? So they're not exactly subtle. (Explaining her "Swan Dress" on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno)
91. I don't like records that are the same from beginning to end, that are too styled and slick. Everything is so designed and airbrushed and Botoxed, it makes us think: "Oh, everybody's perfect except me. Everything's smooth except me." But nothing is smooth. (From Newsweek, September 6 2004 issue, defending a song claimed to be "really hard to listen to" ("Ancestors") from her album Medúlla)
93. It's a big question. Getting rid of religion would be a good start, wouldn't it? It seems to be causing a lot of havoc. (When asked "Given the chance, how would you change the world?"- Independent, 18 March 2005.)
96. 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 with someone at a bar.
97. I feel in a lot of ways Volta is Post 2. Very restless and sort of schizophrenic. Promiscuous in collaborations, but sincere. It's consistent in its restlessness. (About her album "Volta" - 2007)
99. I look at the news, I see people starving, I am crying. I'm a total mess. You try to think how you're going to break through this cobweb of problems and bureaucracy and how on Earth anybody is going to make any change. (Live 8 press conference, 7-4-2005)
100. I don't like drinking with food, I think Iceland people are a bit old-school like that - we think if you drink with food then you're an alcoholic ... but if you drink lots, on a Friday night…(2007)
102. Right now, I feel like I look exhausted, because I'm tired. I'm not vain, like: I want to look pretty. That's never bothered me. But if I see a photograph of me and I look tired, then I'd be more worried than if I looked ugly. (2007)
103. "Gling-Gló" was a bigger seller in Iceland than "Debut" and all the Sugarcubes' albums put together! That tells you a lot about Iceland.
104. Being a musician is very easy. My house is full of musical instruments. There's a lot of music, always. But…I don't really go to premieres and hang out with Puff Daddy. (2007)
106. It seems to me that the politicians of the rich countries are almost like this VIP that are untouchable - and then the rest of the public of their own countries and of all the other countries of the world are like the other" chunk that don't have a voice…so, I would like to say that I am part of that huge chunk, which actually is about…95% of the world! (Live 8 press conference, 7-4-2005)
108. When I was growing up, I always had the feeling I was dropped from somewhere else. That's how I was treated at school in Iceland where the kids used to call me china girl" and everybody thought I was unusual because I looked Chinese.
110. Sometimes doing the same thing for a really long time freaks me out, routine freaks me out. But then again, always doing new things can be lazy...it's tricky. I can be very sneaky with myself.
112. What probably confuses people is they know a lot about me, but it quite pleases me that there's more they don't know.
114. 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. (2007)
116. I'm pretty comfortable with it when it comes to experience, maturity, er, wisdom; but I'd be lying if I said that it don't piss me off that I don't have the same energy I used to have when I was 20. (On being 41 - 2007)
118. I love being a very personal singer-songwriter, but I also like being a scientist or explorer.
119. 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.
120. Getting rid of religion would be a good start, wouldn't it?
122. I do not believe in religion, but if I had to choose one, it would be Buddhism. It seems more livable, closer to men.
124. Although the war has been destructive and disastrous, the good thing is that people actually want to have a say.
125. Both sides are waiting for their Messiah to arrive. And then people point their fingers at us and say we are superstitious.
127. I became really aware of my muscles and bones. Your body just takes over and does incredible things.
128. I do try and wear stuff by unknown designers.
129. I encouraged everyone to express themselves and imagine they were a human drum loop or bassline.
130. I gave everything I've got and a lot more, so I feel very proud of the film. I know all my heart is in there, and that's all I can do.
132. I miss the music, the people and the feeling of acceptance.
133. I should just follow my heart and be spontaneous.
134. I was really into giving my interior up to someone else.
135. In the 1990s, there was a lot of optimism: we thought we'd finally sorted out equal rights for men and women, and then suddenly it just crashed.
136. It's really liberating to do a project that's not just about me.
138. Now, even supermodels are discussing international affairs between themselves.
139. People are learning more about Islam. We're becoming aware of things we didn't know about before.
140. Stupid American racism and patriotism. What about the human soul? What happened before we got involved in problematic things like civilization and religion and nationhood?
142. We set up a portable computer. Ninety percent of this album was recorded in bedrooms and hotel rooms between cooking and talking and chilling out.
143. With a lot of this music, I was in the studio for 12 or 16 hours a day, for a year. You just sit in there with big bags under your eyes and a cup of coffee.
145. You have to be careful in what areas you put discipline, like maintenance or making sure there's electricity in your house or food in the fridge. You have to nurture these things.
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