I find it so amazing when people tell me that electronic music has no soul. You can’t blame the computer. If there’s no soul in the music, it’s because nobody put it there.
BJORKI love being a very personal singer-songwriter, but I also like being a scientist or explorer.
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If travel is searching and home what’s been found, I’m not stopping. I’m going hunting.
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If nothing else, I have money.
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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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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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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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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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Everything is so designed and airbrushed and Botoxed, it makes us think, ‘Oh, everybody’s perfect except me. Everything’s smooth except me.’ But nothing is smooth.
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I’m not going to talk like I know about politics, because I’m a total amateur, but maybe I can be a spokesperson for people who aren’t normally interested in politics.
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Maybe I’ll be a feminist in my old age.
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I’m a fountain of blood. In the shape of a girl.
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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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Now that rock is turning 50, it’s become classical in itself. It’s interesting to see that development.
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I love England. It’s no coincidence it’s the first place I moved to for a more cosmopolitan life, which is the only thing Iceland lacks.
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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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I miss you, but I haven’t met you yet!
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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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There’s more to Life than this
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I try not to record them on my Dictaphone when I first hear them. If I forget all about it and it pops up later on, then I know it’s good enough. I let my subconscious do the editing for me.
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I’d done three solo albums in a row, and that’s quite narcissistic.
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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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Nature is our chapel.
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I get embarrassed listening to my last CDs. I’ve got a lot of work to do, let’s put it that way.
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You shouldn’t let poets lie to you.
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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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I guess I’m quite used to not being understood rather than being understood.
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When I was a teenager in Iceland people would throw rocks and shout abuse at me because they thought I was weird. I never got that in London no matter what I wore.
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