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.
BJORKI don’t expect people to get me. That would be quite arrogant. I think there are a lot of people out there in the world that nobody gets.
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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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There’s something about the rhythm of walking, how, after about an hour and a half, the mind and body can’t help getting in sync.
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I’d done three solo albums in a row, and that’s quite narcissistic.
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Our times seem to be so much about redefining where we are physical and where we’re not.
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Singing is like a celebration of oxygen.
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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.
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I’m not as religious as some people about “the album.” To be honest, that was a product of a format. You had vinyl, and you could fit five songs on each side, and that’s 45 minutes.
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If you wake up / And the day feels broken / Just lean into the crack
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Most people’s eyes are much better developed than their ears. If they see a certain emotion in the photograph, then they’ll understand the music.
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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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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.
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Icelandic 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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How could I be so immature to think you could replace the missing elements in me. How extremely lazy of me.
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Part of me is probably more conservative than people realise. I like my old string quartets, I don’t like music that’s trippy for trippy’s sake.
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I feel like the people from Iceland have a different relationship with their country than other places.
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