I feel the 21st century is another new age. Not only can we collaborate again with nature, but we have to. It’s an emergency.
BJORKIn 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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Usually when you see females in movies, they feel like they have these metallic structures around them, they are caged in by male energy.
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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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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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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.
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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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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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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.
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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.
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You shouldn’t let poets lie to you.
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Formats are just illusions, and it’s about the relationship between the person that makes music and the person that listens to music.
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I don’t really have an ego. I’m not that bothered.
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I will go in a room and hear the people perform and then change it through what I hear, not on paper. I can read music OK, but I probably rebelled a little – music changes into something else when you read it.
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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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Our times seem to be so much about redefining where we are physical and where we’re not.
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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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