There are a lot of people in Iceland who are leftist conspiracy nuts and who really hate America so I wanted to sort of stick it to those people. I also wanted to remind people that we are greatly indebted to America culturally, and that the music I make wouldn't exist without American culture. I know you have these highbrow intellectuals who all sneer, 'Really? What culture comes from America?' But there is a culture. Take a band like The Replacements, from Minneapolis. They really bring with them this sense of being from a lonely city in winter and there being this one bar that you struggle to get to in the middle of a snowstorm, or something. There's a lot of richness there.
