The English can be a very critical, unforgiving people, but criticism can be good. And this is a country that loves comedy.
BJORKIcelandic 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 am one of the most idiosyncratic people around.
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I want to support young girls who are in their 20s now and tell them: You’re not just imagining things. It’s tough. Everything that a guy says once, you have to say five times.
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I have always had a certain song in my head, a certain chemistry of sounds.
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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.
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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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Girls now are also faced with different problems. I’ve been guilty of one thing: After being the only girl in bands for 10 years.
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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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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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If you wake up / And the day feels broken / Just lean into the crack
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i thrive best hermit style. with a beard and a pipe.
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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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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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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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Pedaling through the dark currents, I find an accurate copy. A blue print of the pleasure in me.
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Now that rock is turning 50, it’s become classical in itself. It’s interesting to see that development.
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