starting the album

I guess it was in Autumn 2005 after I spent a year working on a soundtrack album. I finished that in spring, and then I decided to take two months off, just camping in Iceland, doing nothing. Then I just started coming in — I’m lucky because I work at home, so it’s not like I’m sitting a nine to five or something. If an idea comes, I document it. And then I just mind my own business, you know. I mean, always in the beginning of the writing process, you just kind of have to do other totally different stuff, and you never know when an idea’s going to arrive, and it just sort of arrives. And sometimes a week or two will pass without anything really. So, it’s not like it was literally, "Okay, it’s first of September," sit down in front of a desk and, "NOW !" [laughs] That’s sort of where it started.

XFM Interview, April 2007