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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

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.
BJORK

Composition Country Firsts Iceland
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.
BJORK

Boring Happen Nothing Predicatable
I guess I’m quite used to not being understood rather than being understood.
BJORK

Guess Understood Used
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.
BJORK

Music People Soul
In school, I guess I was a difficult, know-it-all type of student… I was always complaining that music education was too academic.
BJORK

Complaining School Students
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!’
BJORK

Labels Lemurs Sharks
I don’t expect people to get me. That would be quite arrogant. I think there are a lot of people out there in the world that nobody gets.
BJORK

Arrogant People Quiet Thinking
Sometimes, when I have a lot of ideas and I want to do a lot of things, or when I’m traveling,
BJORK

Energy Ideas Want
Personally, I think choosing between men and women is like choosing between cake and ice cream. You’d be daft not to try both when there are so many different flavours.
BJORK

Cake Choosing Flavors Ice Cream Personally Women
People that complete other people’s vision are understated.
BJORK

People Understated Vision
Football is a fertility festival. Eleven sperm trying to get into the egg. I feel sorry for the goalkeeper.
BJORK

Eggs Football Sorry
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.
BJORK

Either Mourning Unwritten Windows
i thrive best hermit style. with a beard and a pipe.
BJORK

Beard Hermits Style
I get embarrassed listening to my last CDs. I’ve got a lot of work to do, let’s put it that way.
BJORK

Cds Listening Way
Seventy per cent humidity is ideal for vocal cords.
BJORK

Cents Cords Humidity Vocal
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.
BJORK

Apples Done Punk

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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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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