You get inspired and you can go write one song from that, and then you go back and play a few shows. If I could’ve done that in the 90s, I would have.
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More Bjork Quotes
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Declare independence, don’t let them do that to you!
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With tons of chaotic supply on the internet, you’re going to have people who become very good at being curators or stylists. It’s the same sort of people that I used to go to record shops for.
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There are certain emotions in your body that not even your best friend can sympathize with, but you will find the right film or the right book, and it will understand you.
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And then within the past 10 years Iceland discovered the stock market and it just went, went, went, went, went. I think it hit a roof and it’s just crashed. Just a small percentage of the nation did a lot of damage.
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When I write a song, I see a tunnel, and then the chorus is an open space, or the bassline is doing this shape. I see songs as a more of a geometric, spacial experience.
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I miss you, but I haven’t met you yet!
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Everything that a guy says once, you have to say five times.
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Maybe I’ll be a feminist in my old age.
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Solar power, wind power, the way forward is to collaborate with nature – it’s the only way we are going to get to the other end of the 21st century.
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People are always asking me about eskimos, but there are no eskimos in Iceland.
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Maybe it’s just a personal thing, but I get so much grounding from Iceland because I know it’s always going to be there.
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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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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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What probably confuses people is they know a lot about me, but it quite pleases me that there’s more they don’t know.
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As a singer-songwriter, what I do is write about how the human feels.
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