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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.

Bjork

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
I do try and wear stuff by unknown designers, and I make sure I pay because if nothing else I have money.
BJORK

Money Pay Stuff Trying
And then within the past 10 years Iceland discovered the stock market and it just went, went, went, went, went. I think it hit a roof and it’s just crashed. Just a small percentage of the nation did a lot of damage.
BJORK

Crashed Discovered Nation Percentage Roof
You get inspired and you can go write one song from that, and then you go back and play a few shows. If I could’ve done that in the 90s, I would have.
BJORK

Back Done Few Inspired Show
It’s nice and quiet but soon again starts another big riot!
BJORK

Big Nice Quiet
Seventy per cent humidity is ideal for vocal cords.
BJORK

Cents Cords Humidity Vocal
I have to re-create the universe every morning when I wake up, and kill it in the evening.
BJORK

Evening Morning Up Wake
If travel is searching and home what’s been found, I’m not stopping. I’m going hunting.
BJORK

Found Home Hunting Stopping
I get highs, to be totally honest, in second-hand shops. My hunting instinct, I expect, really kicks in.
BJORK

Getting Hands High Hunting
i thrive best hermit style. with a beard and a pipe.
BJORK

Beard Hermits Style
Nature is our chapel.
BJORK

Chapel Nature Our
But I’m not interested in politics. I lose interest the microsecond it ceases to be emotional, when something becomes a political movement. What I’m interested in is emotions.
BJORK

Emotional Movement Political
I knew if certain people recommended something, it would be good. There’s always going to be those people. It just depends on what they’re called: curators or radio jockeys or bloggers.
BJORK

Blogger Depend Jockey Recommended Something
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
It’s incredible how nature sets females up to take care of people, and yet it is tricky for them to take care of themselves.
BJORK

Care Females People
For a person as obsessed with music as I am, I always hear a song in the back of my head, all the time, and that usually is my own tune. I’ve done that all my life.
BJORK

Done Person Song Time Tunes

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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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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