You're A Coward If You Don't Stand

I'm Not Very Good At Doing Two Things At The Same Time. I've Never Been Good At The Walk And Bubblegum Thing. I've Been Doing This 16 Hours A Day. I Haven't Had A Day Off. But It's Very Exciting, Too, Just To Meet All These People Doing Really Fertile Stuff. It's Sort Of Where I Come From Anyway, Hanging Out With People Who Believe In Something Incredible.

It Takes A Long Time To Fully Become Who You Are.

What's Happening Now In Iceland Is We Grew And Grew And Grew From Being One Of The Poorest Nations In The World To Being One Of The Richest. And Then Within The Past 10 Years Iceland Discovered The Stock Market And It Just Went, Went, Went, Went, Went. I Think It Hit A Roof And It's Just Crashed. Just A Small Percentage Of The Nation Did A Lot Of Damage.

I've Never Done An Album Like This. With Biophilia, I Was Being Like Kofi Annan - I Had To Be The Pacifist To Try To Unite The Impossible. Maybe That Was A Strange, Personal Job Between Me And Myself, To Show How Overreaching I Was Being As A Woman. The Only Way I Could Express That Was By Comparing It To The Universe.

Over The Last 10 Years, There Have Been So Many Incredible Albums Created In Bedrooms By People Who Never Would've Gotten An Album Deal. People Keep Thinking Of Professional Music Studios Like They've Always Been This Way For Hundreds Of Years, But They're Very Much A Child Of The 70s. Even The Interior Is Very 70s. Everything's Brown And It's Wood - Somebody Told Me The Wood Panels Are All By The Same Company. We're Always Mourning Things That Have Died. It's A Bit Much Sometimes. These Studios Have No Fresh Air, And There's This Unwritten Rule That They Don't Have Windows, Either.