It's Nice And Quiet But Soon Again

I'm A Fountain Of Blood In The Shape Of A Girl . . . Leave Me Now Return Tonight Tide Will Show You The Way If You Forget My Name You Will Go Astray Like A Killer Whale Trapped In A Bay

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 Want To Support Young Girls Who Are In Their 20s Now And Tell Them: You're Not Just Imagining Things. It's Tough. Everything That A Guy Says Once, You Have To Say Five Times. Girls Now Are Also Faced With Different Problems. I've Been Guilty Of One Thing: After Being The Only Girl In Bands For 10 Years, I Learned - The Hard Way - That If I Was Going To Get My Ideas Through, I Was Going To Have To Pretend That They - Men - Had The Ideas.

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.

What Comes First? The Melody, Always. It's All About Singing The Melodies Live In My Head. They Go In Circles. I Guess I'm Quite Conservative And Romantic About The Power Of Melodies. I Try Not To Record Them On My Dictaphone When I First Hear Them. If I Forget All About It And It Pops Up Later On, Then I Know It's Good Enough. I Let My Subconscious Do The Editing For Me.