What influences your unique fashion style and who has been your favorite music video director?

That's quite a big question. ... If I have to pick one thing, then I have to say that freedom influences my fashion style. If another, then fun. And if another, comfort. But there is absolutely no way I can pick one favorite music video director. They were all fun in their own way.


.....I was too young to even think about it. It just kinda happened and I would do it completely differently now. Not that I did it wrong or right, but I was 20 and I was like "Oh, another person. Woohoo!"

Well, I am 1.63 M - I don't know what that is in the English systems.

Ray Cokes: An awful question; What would you like written on your gravestone?

I guess my pride wouldn't mind it being something about courage.

Ray Cokes: "known for her obsessive courage" - I can see it now!

I was brought up feeling that my mother had sacrificed herself for me. Fortunately she's now got a little business doing homeopathy from home, but she's almost 60. I'm still desperate to get over that sense of guilt. I don't want my baby to feel that.

I've always been happy, silly, sad, boring, furious, ecstatic, in love, the whole scale, all at the same time. So if I'm not happy all the time, it doesn't make me unhappy, if you see what I mean.

I don't know why it is just me still doing this sort of music and being this sort of perfomer. I think the world has maybe got more conservative. But there is a backlash rising, especially in America. People like Joanna Newsom and Antony and the Johnsons give me hope.


All these things, videos, the internet... I'm really interested in how they connect the brain and the heart. Right now, I'm reading a book called Musicophilia by Oliver Sachs, about the brain and its connections with music: people who see colours, the links between nature and the mind. It's like David Attenborough, who I love, love, love – that curiosity, the big heart behind finding how things work. The best bit of it is when Oliver Sachs says about free jazz linking with Tourettes – that appealed to my sense of humour! And another book I read called The Alphabet and the Goddess...it was about myth and language, all sorts, it mixed together science and human stuff. I like books and art that have that kind of optimism about connecting things. I think that's very important.

99% of jazz is shit and 99% of dance music is shit and 99% of contemporary, like minimalist music for example, is shit, you know. 99% of opera is shit. But it's that 1% that sticks out. And 99% of my music is shit, I think. I just try and try and try and try -- and that one time [snaps fingers] it works.

Master and MArgarita

The book is very popular with Icelanders. It has a very Nordic feeling to it, even though it is Russian. It ridicules bureaucracy, it has black magic and Arctic magic realism. You could say it is ‘Alice in Wonderland’ for the Arctic grown-up.

Scientists haven't discovered it yet, but the human nerve system-which is basically our soul-is very similar to a violin string, 'cause when you hear strings it's like you get all mushy. It's not a coincidence it has the same effect on everybody.

Sound in her head

It's some sort of movement similar to cream I think. You know when they squeeze the cream out of the gas thing. Like really pretty when It's got a spike at the top, and it's got a circle. Sort of slow circle movement in the same way whipped cream would move. Very still and very satisfied.

why she will never wear jeans & a t-shirt
they are a symbol of white American imperialism, like drinking Coca-Cola.