KUKL
"Before the Sugarcubes I was in K.U.K.L., a punk band, and that was much more important to me. The KUKL-period taught me a lot of valuable lessons in a quick and violent way. That band really changed me.  Then in 1986, the label went bankrupt and Kukl quit and I was heartbroken. Crying for days. Much more upset than I've been over any boyfriend. But things began to happen. I bought a house with my then boyfriend and I had a kid. Our house became like a cafeteria for all these people looking for something new to do. And we formed this organisation called Bad Taste, where we reacted against all this punk dressing down and being socially correct. We wore pink and encouraged irresponsibility and had these mottoes like 'World Domination Or Death'. Einar drove a huge, impractical convertible and everyone hated us. It was a magical time, and out of this grew the Sugarcubes."
 
"When I was in the punk band Kukl with Einar, that was fucking therapy; every gig was like cutting your chest open and tearing out your heart. It just became ridiculous after a while."

THE SUGARCUBES
"It was a hobby really. We'd all get drunk at weekends and write these weirdo pop songs and then when we had enough we could go on holiday as The Sugarcubes. It was just a group of friends travelling all over the world and thinking, 'this is crazy'. Nobody expected to last even as long as it did."

"Folks might say something went wrong with the Sugarcubes. Not so! We had worked together as a unit since we were 14, 15 years old - we'd done all these different things together and always stuck by each other no matter what. We've been arrested, been thrown in jail together."

"The Sugarcubes were attracted to each other because we were all extreme people. We always had a good time, even if we were stuck in a boring German suburb eating cold hamburgers. The music was secondary, so we didn't have this big musical ambition to be brilliant. I could be in the background and write my melodies and lyrics and then watch how the music turned out. Plus I got the chance to travel all the time and see how other bands function, which taught me a lot. Fame was not in our plan but at the same time, we enjoyed it. It was a happy accident. The Sugarcubes people will support each other until the ay we die. And we are also each other's hardest critics. Like, I'll send my record to the bass player and he will tell me it's crap, you know? And he sends me his poetry."

"Sugarcubes, number one was people. We liked each other and we had a good time together and the music that came out of that relationship was a bit of an accident. When I realized the Sugarcubes had become this serious band-thing, I started to realize that it was now or never. If I didn't record all those songs I'd written in my head, then it would never do it."