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I knew if certain people recommended something, it would be good. There’s always going to be those people. It just depends on what they’re called: curators or radio jockeys or bloggers.
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Blogger Depend Jockey Recommended Something
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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Behavior Helping Maps
Sometimes, when I have a lot of ideas and I want to do a lot of things, or when I’m traveling,
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Energy Ideas Want
Everything is so designed and airbrushed and Botoxed, it makes us think, ‘Oh, everybody’s perfect except me. Everything’s smooth except me.’ But nothing is smooth.
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Everything Example Nothing Perfect Smooth
Declare independence, don’t let them do that to you!
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Declare Independence Let
I’ve never done an album like this. With Biophilia, I was being like Kofi Annan – I had to be the pacifist to try to unite the impossible.
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Biophilia Done Strange Trying
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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Cds Listening Way
If travel is searching and home what’s been found, I’m not stopping. I’m going hunting.
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Found Home Hunting Stopping
I don’t expect people to get me. That would be quite arrogant. I think there are a lot of people out there in the world that nobody gets.
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Arrogant People Quiet Thinking
Maybe that was a strange, personal job between me and myself, to show how overreaching I was being as a woman. The only way I could express that was by comparing it to the universe.
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Express Myself Overreaching Show Universe
I do try and wear stuff by unknown designers, and I make sure I pay because if nothing else I have money.
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Money Pay Stuff Trying
$Bjork Quote - When I was 18, science, physics, and math were my favorite. I was a bit of a nerd – the only girl with a lot of boys at chess championships.$

When I was 18, science, physics, and math were my favorite. I was a bit of a nerd – the only girl with a lot of boys at chess championships.
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Boys Chess Favorite Girl Math
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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Boring Happen Nothing Predicatable
I miss you, but I haven’t met you yet!
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Havens Mets Missing
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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Chorus Song Writing
National Geographic contacted me about getting on their label, and I was like, ‘Wow, I want to be label mates with the sharks and lemurs!’
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Labels Lemurs Sharks
In 2008, I was more just thinking about using the touchscreen for writing the songs. From there I started thinking about how I visualised music.
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Song Thinking Visualized Writing
Icelandic people are really educated. But maybe we are at where the people in the States were 50 years ago, where they think that stuff that isn’t done with a hammer or physical power is not a job. It’s that backwards.
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Done Educate People Thinking Year
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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Good Internet People Stylist Very
I think every year brings unknowns that you have to deal with and handle, confront and embrace.
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Embrace Thinking Years
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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Criminals People Vampire
You want people to take risks, and OK, they fail, but you don’t get the great stuff unless people are willing to risk and not play it safe. And maybe the Icelandic characteristic is better harnessed in these places than on the stock market.
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Failing Great People Risk Safe
I love being a very personal singer-songwriter, but I also like being a scientist or explorer.
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Scientists Singers Songwriter
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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Believe Interview Spirit
How could I be so immature to think you could replace the missing elements in me. How extremely lazy of me.
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Dream Lazy Love Thinking
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.
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Country Iceland Rocks Teenager
I have to re-create the universe every morning when I wake up, and kill it in the evening.
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Evening Morning Up Wake

If you wake up / And the day feels broken / Just lean into the crack

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