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When I was a teenager in Iceland people would throw rocks and shout abuse at me because they thought I was weird. I never got that in London no matter what I wore.

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!’
BJORK

Labels Lemurs Sharks
I have written most of my melodies walking and I feel it is definitely one of the most helpful ways of sewing all of the different things in your life together and seeing the whole picture.
BJORK

Different Together Way
i thrive best hermit style. with a beard and a pipe.
BJORK

Beard Hermits Style
Now that rock is turning 50, it’s become classical in itself. It’s interesting to see that development.
BJORK

Interesting Rocks Turning
Being a musician is very easy. My house is full of musical instruments. There’s a lot of music, always.
BJORK

House Musical Musician
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.
BJORK

Artist Color Image Writing
It’s funny how the hippies and the punks tried to get rid of the conservatives, but they always seem to get the upper hand in the end.
BJORK

Conservatives Hands Hippie Upper
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.
BJORK

Choirs Keyboard Past People Writing
I learned what a lot of women have to do is make the guys in the room think it was their idea, and then you back them up.
BJORK

Guy Ideas Thinking
Seventy per cent humidity is ideal for vocal cords.
BJORK

Cents Cords Humidity Vocal
Nature is our chapel.
BJORK

Chapel Nature Our
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.
BJORK

Eye Important People Photograph Understand
People that complete other people’s vision are understated.
BJORK

People Understated Vision
Kids draw masterpieces – they’re the best painters ever. I think the same with music. They could totally write amazing music if they just had the right tools.
BJORK

Kids Thinking Writing
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.
BJORK

Age Century Collaborate Emergencies
I am grateful… grapefruit.
BJORK

Fruit Grapes Grateful Honor

When I was a teenager in Iceland people would throw rocks and shout abuse at me because they thought I was weird. I never got that in London no matter what I wore.

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When I was a teenager in Iceland people would throw rocks and shout abuse at me because they thought I was weird. I never got that in London no matter what I wore.

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