Emotions weren’t created to just lie around. You should experience things to the full. I’ve got a sense of the clock ticking.
BJORKEmotions weren’t created to just lie around. You should experience things to the full. I’ve got a sense of the clock ticking.
BJORKWe’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.
BJORKThere’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.
BJORKIt’s nice and quiet but soon again starts another big riot!
BJORKI’m no buddhist, but this is fu**ing enlightmentment
BJORKIt’s incredible how nature sets females up to take care of people, and yet it is tricky for them to take care of themselves.
BJORKI get embarrassed listening to my last CDs. I’ve got a lot of work to do, let’s put it that way.
BJORKI feel like the people from Iceland have a different relationship with their country than other places.
BJORKSometimes 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.
BJORKI have always had a certain song in my head, a certain chemistry of sounds.
BJORKIt’s a sign that you have a good work relationship if you don’t have to analyze. That’s usually a good sign within creative work.
BJORKI have to re-create the universe every morning when I wake up, and kill it in the evening.
BJORKI try not to record them on my Dictaphone when I first hear them. If I forget all about it and it pops up later on, then I know it’s good enough. I let my subconscious do the editing for me.
BJORKThere’s definitely, definitely, definitely, no logic to human behaviour . . . There’s no map And a compass Wouldn’t help at all
BJORKThe reason I do interviews is because I’m protecting my songs.
BJORKFormats are just illusions, and it’s about the relationship between the person that makes music and the person that listens to music.
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