Now That Rock Is Turning 50, It's

I Think After Iceland's Independence In 1944, We Were Not Very Sure Of Ourselves And Our Confidence Was Really Low. It Took One Generation To Sort Of Get Over That. I'm Second Generation. My Parents Were Born In 1945-46. Our Movement At The Punk Times Was Like, We Can Sing In Icelandic, We Are Strong.

Our Times Seem To Be So Much About Redefining Where We Are Physical And Where We're Not. For Me, It Is Really Exciting To Take The Cutting Edge Technology And Take It As Far As It Can Get Virtually, Use It To Describe/control The Musicology Or The Behavior Of Raw Natural Elements, And Then Plug It With A Sound Source Which Is The Most Acoustic One There Is - Like Gamelan And Pipe Organ. So You Get The Extremes: Very Virtual And Very Physical. In That Way You Shift The Physicality.

Iceland Sets 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.

National Geographic Contacted Me About Getting On Their Label, And I Was Like, 'wow, I Want To Be Label Mates With The Sharks And Lemurs!'

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.