It’s nice and quiet but soon again starts another big riot!
BJORKIn school, I guess I was a difficult, know-it-all type of student… I was always complaining that music education was too academic.
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I learned what a lot of women have to do is make the guys in the room think it was their idea, and then you back them up.
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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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People from the rock and roll world have felt for years that electronic music had no soul, but now electronic music can not only have soul but have all the shapes in the world.
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There’s more to Life than this
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People ask me questions like, “Oh, you look so theatrical in your photographs. Is that what you’re like when you walk down the street?” It’s like, “Of course not.” It’s such a silly question – it’s like being theatrical is a crime.
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We’re always mourning things that have died. It’s a bit much sometimes. These studios have no fresh air, and there’s this unwritten rule that they don’t have windows, either.
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I don’t really have an ego. I’m not that bothered.
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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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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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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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Everything that a guy says once, you have to say five times.
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Every time there’s a new format, the iron is hot, and you can mold it.
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In school, I guess I was a difficult, know-it-all type of student… I was always complaining that music education was too academic.
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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.
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Pedaling through the dark currents, I find an accurate copy. A blue print of the pleasure in me.
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