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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.

Bjork

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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Labels Lemurs Sharks
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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Albums People Years
Declare independence, don’t let them do that to you!
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Declare Independence Let
Now that rock is turning 50, it’s become classical in itself. It’s interesting to see that development.
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Interesting Rocks Turning
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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Done Person Song Time Tunes
I’ve written arrangements for choirs and strings in the past, but I usually write music with my voice or a keyboard and then I’ll get someone who is good at writing scores to write it out. Or, if I have the luxury of time.
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Choirs Keyboard Past People Writing
Football is a fertility festival. Eleven sperm trying to get into the egg. I feel sorry for the goalkeeper.
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Eggs Football Sorry
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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Composition Country Firsts Iceland
You get inspired and you can go write one song from that, and then you go back and play a few shows. If I could’ve done that in the 90s, I would have.
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Back Done Few Inspired Show
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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Amateur Going Knows People Politics Talk
I don’t really have an ego. I’m not that bothered.
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Bothered Ego Really
If nothing else, I have money.
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Else Money Nothing
If you can make nature and technology friends, then you can make everyone friends; you can make everyone intact. That’s what women do a lot – they’re the glue between a lot of things.
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Everybody Friend Glue Technology
I will go in a room and hear the people perform and then change it through what I hear, not on paper. I can read music OK, but I probably rebelled a little – music changes into something else when you read it.
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Music Paper People Something
I’m a fountain of blood in the shape of a girl . . . leave me now return tonight tide will show you the way if you forget my name you will go astray like a killer whale trapped in a bay
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Blood Girl Leave Whale
I am one of the most idiosyncratic people around.
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Idiosyncratic Most People

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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