I’m not as religious as some people about “the album.” To be honest, that was a product of a format. You had vinyl, and you could fit five songs on each side, and that’s 45 minutes.
BJORKEverything 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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I get highs, to be totally honest, in second-hand shops. My hunting instinct, I expect, really kicks in.
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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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There’s more to Life than this
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I guess I’m quite used to not being understood rather than being understood.
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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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It takes a long time to fully become who you are.
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Being a musician is very easy. My house is full of musical instruments. There’s a lot of music, always.
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Seventy per cent humidity is ideal for vocal cords.
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I mean, I’ve never been thinking that if you’re a fan you have to buy everything that somebody puts out. I mean, you’ve got a choice. If you don’t want it, just don’t buy it. It’s also a reaction to YouTube and sharing of files.
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I’m not that keen on fierce dictatorship. I think that sort of the point of working with somebody is them coming up with stuff and feeling free to do that.
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They design telephones to look great, but they sound horrible. I think it was about time that the other senses were celebrated.
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I definitely can feel the third or fourth feminist wave in the air, so maybe this is a good time to open that Pandora’s box a little bit and air it out.
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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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Emotions weren’t created to just lie around. You should experience things to the full. I’ve got a sense of the clock ticking.
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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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