I Am One Of The Most Idiosyncratic

I'm Back At My Cliff Still Throwing Things Off I Listen To The Sounds They Make On Their Way Down I Follow Him With My Eyes 'till They Crash Imagine What My Body Would Sound Like Slamming Against Those Rocks.

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.

I Was Very Aware When I Went To The Academy Awards That It Would Probably Be My First And Last Time. So I Thought My Input Should Really Be About Fertility, And I Thought I'd Bring Some Eggs.

I've Written Arrangements For Choirs And Strings In The Past, But I Usually Write Music With My Voice Or A Keyboard And Then I'll Get Someone Who Is Good At Writing Scores To Write It Out. Or, If I Have The Luxury Of Time, I Will Go In A Room And Hear The People Perform And Then Change It Through What I Hear, Not On Paper. I Can Read Music Ok, But I Probably Rebelled A Little - Music Changes Into Something Else When You Read It.

I Feel Icelandic People Are Really Good At Gathering Together Information And Brain Power. We're Better At That Than Some Kind Of Las Vegas Money Gambling. I Mean, I Really Admire The Characteristics In Icelandics, This Adventureism. We Are Famous For It. We Are Addicted To Risk To The Point Of Being Foolhardy. And I Think That Is Great In Brain Power Stuff.