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.
BJORKIt’s incredible how nature sets females up to take care of people, and yet it is tricky for them to take care of themselves.
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Everything that a guy says once, you have to say five times.
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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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Every time there’s a new format, the iron is hot, and you can mold it.
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Maybe it’s just a personal thing, but I get so much grounding from Iceland because I know it’s always going to be there.
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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 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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When I met Apple, I made it very clear that I am an old punk and I have never done commercials or been sponsored. And I wasn’t after their money.
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Love is a two way dream.
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I don’t like records that are the same from beginning to end, that are too styled and slick.
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It’s incredible how nature sets females up to take care of people, and yet it is tricky for them to take care of themselves.
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I’ve been traveling in Guatemala in the rainforest, and here all these houses are made of sticks. It seems so easy to make one.
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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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It wasn’t just one journalist getting it wrong, everybody was getting it wrong.
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Singing is like a celebration of oxygen.
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People are always going to need physicality; they’re going to want to meet other people even more. I’ve got faith in the physical angle. People have their needs. They won’t forget about them.
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The reason I do photographs is to help people understand my music, so it’s very important that I am the same, emotionally, in the photographs as in the music.
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There’s more to Life than this
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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 am grateful… grapefruit.
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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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There are certain emotions in your body that not even your best friend can sympathize with, but you will find the right film or the right book, and it will understand you.
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The English can be a very critical, unforgiving people, but criticism can be good. And this is a country that loves comedy.
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I lose energy and I can’t do as many things as I want. So I have to plan days when I’m not doing anything. I find that a bit boring, but it’s necessary.
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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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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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I definitely can feel the third or fourth feminist wave in the air, so maybe this is a good time to open that Pandora’s box a little bit and air it out.
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