There is this stereotype of Icelanders all believing in spirits, and I’ve played up to that a bit in interviews.
BJORKI feel like the people from Iceland have a different relationship with their country than other places.
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Every time there’s a new format, the iron is hot, and you can mold it.
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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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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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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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But I’m not interested in politics. I lose interest the microsecond it ceases to be emotional, when something becomes a political movement. What I’m interested in is emotions.
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I love being a very personal singer-songwriter, but I also like being a scientist or explorer.
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As a singer-songwriter, what I do is write about how the human feels.
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Over the last 10 years, there have been so many incredible albums created in bedrooms by people who never would’ve gotten an album deal.
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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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Maybe I’ll be a feminist in my old age.
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For a person as obsessed with music as I am, I always hear a song in the back of my head, all the time, and that usually is my own tune. I’ve done that all my life.
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It seems that most the world is driven by the eye, right? They design cities to look great but they always sound horrible …
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Football is a fertility festival. Eleven sperm trying to get into the egg. I feel sorry for the goalkeeper.
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Part of me is probably more conservative than people realise. I like my old string quartets, I don’t like music that’s trippy for trippy’s sake.
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I don’t really have an ego. I’m not that bothered.
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