I’m self-sufficient. I spend a lot of time on my own and I shut off quite easily. When I communicate, I communicate 900 per cent, then I shut off, which scares people sometimes.
BJORKI’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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Formats are just illusions, and it’s about the relationship between the person that makes music and the person that listens to music.
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Maybe that was a strange, personal job between me and myself, to show how overreaching I was being as a woman. The only way I could express that was by comparing it to the universe.
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There’s definitely, definitely, definitely, no logic to human behaviour . . . There’s no map And a compass Wouldn’t help at all
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There’s more to Life than this
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Everything is so designed and airbrushed and Botoxed, it makes us think, ‘Oh, everybody’s perfect except me. Everything’s smooth except me.’ But nothing is smooth.
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It wasn’t just one journalist getting it wrong, everybody was getting it wrong.
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It seems that most the world is driven by the eye, right? They design cities to look great but they always sound horrible …
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There are certain emotions in your body that not even your best friend can sympathize with, but you will find the right film or the right book, and it will understand you.
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Declare independence, don’t let them do that to you!
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I get embarrassed listening to my last CDs. I’ve got a lot of work to do, let’s put it that way.
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A lot of it is really bad sound, really low quality. So the librarian in me wants it at least to exist there so that in 20 years when I’m sitting in my rocking chair, it will still exist in the best sound quality possible, even though it only sold 1000 units or whatever.
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I guess I’m quite used to not being understood rather than being understood.
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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.
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Seventy per cent humidity is ideal for vocal cords.
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The English can be a very critical, unforgiving people, but criticism can be good. And this is a country that loves comedy.
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