Maybe it’s just a personal thing, but I get so much grounding from Iceland because I know it’s always going to be there.
BJORKI want to support young girls who are in their 20s now and tell them: You’re not just imagining things. It’s tough.
More Bjork Quotes
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There’s more to Life than this
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I have to re-create the universe every morning when I wake up, and kill it in the evening.
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I don’t like records that are the same from beginning to end, that are too styled and slick.
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I will go in a room and hear the people perform and then change it through what I hear, not on paper. I can read music OK, but I probably rebelled a little – music changes into something else when you read it.
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Solar power, wind power, the way forward is to collaborate with nature – it’s the only way we are going to get to the other end of the 21st century.
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They design telephones to look great, but they sound horrible. I think it was about time that the other senses were celebrated.
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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.
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I miss you, but I haven’t met you yet!
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All we had ever heard about record company people is that they were vampires and criminals…and they killed Elvis Presley.
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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’ve never done an album like this. With Biophilia, I was being like Kofi Annan – I had to be the pacifist to try to unite the impossible.
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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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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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With tons of chaotic supply on the internet, you’re going to have people who become very good at being curators or stylists. It’s the same sort of people that I used to go to record shops for.
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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!’
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