When I was a teenager in Iceland people would throw rocks and shout abuse at me because they thought I was weird. I never got that in London no matter what I wore.
BJORKI get embarrassed listening to my last CDs. I’ve got a lot of work to do, let’s put it that way.
More Bjork Quotes
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There’s definitely, definitely, definitely, no logic to human behaviour . . . There’s no map And a compass Wouldn’t help at all
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I want to support young girls who are in their 20s now and tell them: You’re not just imagining things. It’s tough.
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I get embarrassed listening to my last CDs. I’ve got a lot of work to do, let’s put it that way.
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I have a very happy, healthy relationship with the country, so it’s really easy to go everywhere because I always have Iceland to go back to. It’s sort of a contradiction, but that’s how it works somehow.
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When I started writing, I fought against it. I thought it was way too boring and predictable. But most of the time, it just happens; there’s nothing you can do. You have to let it be what it is.
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It wasn’t just one journalist getting it wrong, everybody was getting it wrong.
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I’ve written arrangements for choirs and strings in the past, but I usually write music with my voice or a keyboard and then I’ll get someone who is good at writing scores to write it out. Or, if I have the luxury of time.
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There is this stereotype of Icelanders all believing in spirits, and I’ve played up to that a bit in interviews.
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I was very aware when I went to the Academy Awards that it would probably be my first and last time. So I thought my input should really be about fertility, and I thought I’d bring some eggs.
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Love is a two way dream.
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I’ve been traveling in Guatemala in the rainforest, and here all these houses are made of sticks. It seems so easy to make one.
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All we had ever heard about record company people is that they were vampires and criminals…and they killed Elvis Presley.
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I’m no buddhist, but this is fu**ing enlightmentment
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As a singer-songwriter, what I do is write about how the human feels.
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You’re a coward if you don’t stand up. Not for you, but for women. Say something.
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