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I feel like the people from Iceland have a different relationship with their country than other places. Most Icelandic people are really proud to be from there, and we don't have embarrassments like World War II where we were cruel to other people.

Most Icelandic people are really proud to be from there, and we don't have embarrassments like World War II where we were cruel to other people. We don't even have an army. So it's sort of like an all-around good, innocent place.

The thing about Iceland is that we are trapped there anyway, all of us. We have been trapped there for thousands of years.

It is a matter of simple fact that Icelanders have always been notoriously indolent.

We are never racist against somebody who is very far away. I don't know any racism against the Eskimos. To have a racist feeling, there must be an other who is slightly different from us - but is living close to us.

Did you know there's probably more golf played in Iceland than most places in the world? They play 24 hours a day in the summertime and the northern part is warmer than the southern part.

Genetic studies in Iceland have found that many of the women who were the founding stock of Iceland came from England and what is now France. Some were probably captured and carried off in Viking raids only 40 generations ago.

Throughout the history of Iceland, men have been lost at sea; every family in Iceland is connected to that kind of story.

The Eskimos had fifty-two names for snow because it was important to them: there ought to be as many for love.

There is this stereotype of Icelanders all believing in spirits, and I've played up to that a bit in interviews.