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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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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If you can make nature and technology friends, then you can make everyone friends; you can make everyone intact. That’s what women do a lot – they’re the glue between a lot of things.
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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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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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Our times seem to be so much about redefining where we are physical and where we’re not.
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I try not to record them on my Dictaphone when I first hear them. If I forget all about it and it pops up later on, then I know it’s good enough. I let my subconscious do the editing for me.
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There’s something about the rhythm of walking, how, after about an hour and a half, the mind and body can’t help getting in sync.
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When I met Apple, I made it very clear that I am an old punk and I have never done commercials or been sponsored. And I wasn’t after their money.
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Maybe I’ll be a feminist in my old age.
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Kids draw masterpieces – they’re the best painters ever. I think the same with music. They could totally write amazing music if they just had the right tools.
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I think after Iceland’s independence in 1944, we were not very sure of ourselves and our confidence was really low. It took one generation to sort of get over that. I’m second generation.
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It’s incredible how nature sets females up to take care of people, and yet it is tricky for them to take care of themselves.
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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 feel like the people from Iceland have a different relationship with their country than other places.
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I have to re-create the universe every morning when I wake up, and kill it in the evening.
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