Some people believe that every Icelandic person believes in elves and trolls.
Wait you don't?
Oh, that's disappointing. I thought we were going to do a whole thing on elves and trolls.
Do people really think that?
Yes!
I got my first guitar when I was three, I used to always sleep with it.
Did you?
Yeah, I didn't want to let go of it.
Just feels good, just feels like you can be yourself, you know?
I had a long time when I was growing up of course.
A town of 40 people, and it's not stressful.
It just feels like being home.
How do you feel when you get into big cities
when you do things like London, and New York? What does it do to your personality?
You know, just kind of overwhelming.
Some kind of feeling of being overwhelmed.
Do you ever have those moments up onstage, and then you open your eyes
and realise thousands of people are watching you?
Yeah.
Is that super weird, 'cause I imagine that would be super weird.
Yeah, yeah it is weird. I don't think about it too much, but when you mention it...
I've ruined it, haven't I?
No, no, no.
I tend to look down a lot, I'm not scanning the audience the whole time.
I remember instances where I'm just in the music and then just - okay, what's going on?
As you were growing up, you also had a sort of alternative career as a javelin thrower, as well.
Yeah, it was always between music and that.
So I was just 100% training, you know, for hours a day. I wanted to take it as far as I could.
And so when did you realise that you couldn't do that any more?
So I get injured a couple of times, or many times actually through my sport career.
But it all ended with one injury, like a back injury that I didn't recover from.
And so, I just eventually turned more to music.
I was reading a story about this, and I don't know if this is true or not so you can correct me.
But when you were very young, when you were about five, where you in a car accident?
Yeah.
What happened?
There was this big mountain that was close by. And we used to drive up the mountain on Sundays
One day we went outside, and my sister got to use the camera and take pictures of the town.
And I wasn't allowed to, because I was so little. So I got really frustrated
and just started doing something like in the car.
Did you take over the car?
Gears and stuff, I was just in the backseat and I was just frustrated
and then all of a sudden the car just, starts running
And I rolled down the mountain.
I remember every moment really vividly, actually. It's just kind of...
I remember I just looked at my mum when the car started rolling
I didn't say it, I just looked into her eyes and then it just began rolling.
Nothing really happened to me, actually which is -
Kind of miraculous, really when you think about it.
Yeah! You can see pictures of the car and it was just, really nothing left of it.
Do you think the music industry and the way these sorts of things are set up
Do you think they are not geared towards people who are naturally introspective?
'Cause everything about this set up is encouraging you to be an extrovert, right.
But you're not really an extrovert, are you?
No.
But it also kind of challenges people like me to kind of step out of my comfort zone
and kind of, grow I suppose as persons.
But it's definitely not kind of my thing.
No!
But I think you're pulling it off really well.
You know, most of the best music I've made it hasn't been of any importance at all.
You know, and nobody was waiting to hear it. It was just kind of for myself.
You just have to start playing, and eventually the music is gonna kind of surround you.
And you're just in it, you know?
Thank you so much for talking to us, a real pleasure.