Icelandic people are really educated. But maybe we are at where the people in the States were 50 years ago, where they think that stuff that isn’t done with a hammer or physical power is not a job. It’s that backwards.
BJORKIt 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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Sometimes, when I have a lot of ideas and I want to do a lot of things, or when I’m traveling,
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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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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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When I was 18, science, physics, and math were my favorite. I was a bit of a nerd – the only girl with a lot of boys at chess championships.
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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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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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A lot of it is really bad sound, really low quality. So the librarian in me wants it at least to exist there so that in 20 years when I’m sitting in my rocking chair, it will still exist in the best sound quality possible, even though it only sold 1000 units or whatever.
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I just feel like making things solar-powered and wind-powered should be as easy as using an iPad.
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It’s nice and quiet but soon again starts another big riot!
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Love is a two way dream.
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For a person as obsessed with music as I am, I always hear a song in the back of my head, all the time, and that usually is my own tune. I’ve done that all my life.
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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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I think every year brings unknowns that you have to deal with and handle, confront and embrace.
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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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When I write a song, I see a tunnel, and then the chorus is an open space, or the bassline is doing this shape. I see songs as a more of a geometric, spacial experience.
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