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I’m no buddhist, but this is fu**ing enlightmentment

Bjork

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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Boring Happen Nothing Predicatable
I have to re-create the universe every morning when I wake up, and kill it in the evening.
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Evening Morning Up Wake
I don’t like records that are the same from beginning to end, that are too styled and slick.
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Beginning Perfect Records Stick Thinking
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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Ending Hear Pop Record Subconsciousness
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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Body Half Mind
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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Care Females People
People are always asking me about eskimos, but there are no eskimos in Iceland.
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Asking Iceland People
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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Song Thinking Visualized Writing
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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Failing Great People Risk Safe
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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Needs People Physically Wants
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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Generation Parent Strong Thinking
You’re a coward if you don’t stand up. Not for you, but for women. Say something.
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Coward Something Stand
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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Eye Important People Photograph Understand
We’re always mourning things that have died. It’s a bit much sometimes. These studios have no fresh air, and there’s this unwritten rule that they don’t have windows, either.
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Either Mourning Unwritten Windows
Emotions weren’t created to just lie around. You should experience things to the full. I’ve got a sense of the clock ticking.
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Emotion Feel Lying Powerful Probably
It’s nice and quiet but soon again starts another big riot!
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Big Nice Quiet

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