People ask me questions like, “Oh, you look so theatrical in your photographs. Is that what you’re like when you walk down the street?” It’s like, “Of course not.” It’s such a silly question – it’s like being theatrical is a crime.
BJORKWhen 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 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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Usually when you see females in movies, they feel like they have these metallic structures around them, they are caged in by male energy.
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Maybe I’ll be a feminist in my old age.
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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.
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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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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.
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I’m not that keen on fierce dictatorship. I think that sort of the point of working with somebody is them coming up with stuff and feeling free to do that.
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How could I be so immature to think you could replace the missing elements in me. How extremely lazy of me.
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I do try and wear stuff by unknown designers, and I make sure I pay because if nothing else I have money.
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I’m a whisper in water.
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I have a very happy, healthy relationship with the country, so it’s really easy to go everywhere because I always have Iceland to go back to. It’s sort of a contradiction, but that’s how it works somehow.
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I definitely can feel the third or fourth feminist wave in the air, so maybe this is a good time to open that Pandora’s box a little bit and air it out.
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I’m a fountain of blood. In the shape of a girl.
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I get highs, to be totally honest, in second-hand shops. My hunting instinct, I expect, really kicks in.
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When I was 20, political music was the uncoolest thing on earth. But when Bush got elected, that was the first time I started actually reading the news.
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