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I feel like the people from Iceland have a different relationship with their country than other places.

Bjork

In school, I guess I was a difficult, know-it-all type of student… I was always complaining that music education was too academic.
BJORK

Complaining School Students
As a singer-songwriter, what I do is write about how the human feels.
BJORK

Singers Songwriter Writing
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.
BJORK

Format People Product Religious Song
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.
BJORK

Awards Eggs Input
Being a musician is very easy. My house is full of musical instruments. There’s a lot of music, always.
BJORK

House Musical Musician
I have written most of my melodies walking and I feel it is definitely one of the most helpful ways of sewing all of the different things in your life together and seeing the whole picture.
BJORK

Different Together Way
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.
BJORK

Failing Great People Risk Safe
I love being a very personal singer-songwriter, but I also like being a scientist or explorer.
BJORK

Scientists Singers Songwriter
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.
BJORK

Chorus Song Writing
A lot of it is really bad sound, really low quality. So the librarian in me wants it at least to exist there so that in 20 years when I’m sitting in my rocking chair, it will still exist in the best sound quality possible, even though it only sold 1000 units or whatever.
BJORK

Best Low Possible Quality Rocking Sound Want
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.
BJORK

Emotional Movement Political
I get embarrassed listening to my last CDs. I’ve got a lot of work to do, let’s put it that way.
BJORK

Cds Listening Way
I’m a fountain of blood in the shape of a girl . . . leave me now return tonight tide will show you the way if you forget my name you will go astray like a killer whale trapped in a bay
BJORK

Blood Girl Leave Whale
Sometimes when I write lyrics there are images in them, usually on a quite simplistic level, like colors. But most often music comes first and then later I sit down with visual people and we chat about what we want to do. I don’t look at myself as a visual artist. I make music.
BJORK

Artist Color Image Writing
It’s important at that age to set up something, and then maybe afterwards you can go study your violin for 500 hours a week. But at least in the beginning you know about the options.
BJORK

Important Options Something Study
If you wake up / And the day feels broken / Just lean into the crack
BJORK

Broken Cracks Day Wake

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