How could I be so immature to think you could replace the missing elements in me. How extremely lazy of me.
BJORKI’ve always appreciated working with people I have chemistry with, who are friends, and where you feel that the work is growing while you are getting to know each other better.
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Everything that a guy says once, you have to say five times.
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I guess I’m quite used to not being understood rather than being understood.
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I’m self-sufficient. I spend a lot of time on my own and I shut off quite easily. When I communicate, I communicate 900 per cent, then I shut off, which scares people sometimes.
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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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I am one of the most idiosyncratic people around.
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Maybe that was a strange, personal job between me and myself, to show how overreaching I was being as a woman. The only way I could express that was by comparing it to the universe.
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People are always asking me about eskimos, but there are no eskimos in Iceland.
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i thrive best hermit style. with a beard and a pipe.
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I want to support young girls who are in their 20s now and tell them: You’re not just imagining things. It’s tough.
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When I started writing, I fought against it. I thought it was way too boring and predictable. But most of the time, it just happens; there’s nothing you can do. You have to let it be what it is.
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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’ve always appreciated working with people I have chemistry with, who are friends, and where you feel that the work is growing while you are getting to know each other better.
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It’s nice and quiet but soon again starts another big riot!
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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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Personally, I think choosing between men and women is like choosing between cake and ice cream. You’d be daft not to try both when there are so many different flavours.
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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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There’s something about the rhythm of walking, how, after about an hour and a half, the mind and body can’t help getting in sync.
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I have always had a certain song in my head, a certain chemistry of sounds.
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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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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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I’ve never done an album like this. With Biophilia, I was being like Kofi Annan – I had to be the pacifist to try to unite the impossible.
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If nothing else, I have money.
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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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National Geographic contacted me about getting on their label, and I was like, ‘Wow, I want to be label mates with the sharks and lemurs!’
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What probably confuses people is they know a lot about me, but it quite pleases me that there’s more they don’t know.
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It takes a long time to fully become who you are.
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