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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

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.
BJORK

Communicate Easily People Scare Self
Emotions weren’t created to just lie around. You should experience things to the full. I’ve got a sense of the clock ticking.
BJORK

Emotion Feel Lying Powerful Probably
Personally, I think choosing between men and women is like choosing between cake and ice cream. You’d be daft not to try both when there are so many different flavours.
BJORK

Cake Choosing Flavors Ice Cream Personally Women
When I write a song, I see a tunnel, and then the chorus is an open space, or the bassline is doing this shape. I see songs as a more of a geometric, spacial experience.
BJORK

Chorus Song Writing
In school, I guess I was a difficult, know-it-all type of student… I was always complaining that music education was too academic.
BJORK

Complaining School Students
They design telephones to look great, but they sound horrible. I think it was about time that the other senses were celebrated.
BJORK

Design Horrible Sound Telephone
Maybe I’ll be a feminist in my old age.
BJORK

Age Feminist Maybe Old
You’re a coward if you don’t stand up. Not for you, but for women. Say something.
BJORK

Coward Something Stand
We’re always mourning things that have died. It’s a bit much sometimes. These studios have no fresh air, and there’s this unwritten rule that they don’t have windows, either.
BJORK

Either Mourning Unwritten Windows
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
Seventy per cent humidity is ideal for vocal cords.
BJORK

Cents Cords Humidity Vocal
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
Singing is like a celebration of oxygen.
BJORK

Celebration Oxygen Singing
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.
BJORK

Biophilia Done Strange Trying
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.
BJORK

Book Movie Ourselves Understanding
People are always asking me about eskimos, but there are no eskimos in Iceland.
BJORK

Asking Iceland People

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.

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