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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.

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.

[as A Kid] I Felt It Was Really Weird That Music Schools Behaved Like A Conveyor Belt To Make Performers For Those Symphony Orchestras. If You Were Really Good And Practiced Your Violin For A Few Hours A Day For Ten Years You Might Be Invited To This Vip Elite Club. For Me Music Was Not About That. It Is About Freedom And Expression And Individuality And Impulsiveness And Spontaneity. It Wasn't So Apollonian; It Was More Dionysian.

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.

I Sometimes Fall Into The Trap Of Doing What I Think I Should Be Doing Rather Than What I Want To Be Doing.