When I was 18, science, physics, and math were my favorite. I was a bit of a nerd – the only girl with a lot of boys at chess championships.
BJORKWhen I was 18, science, physics, and math were my favorite. I was a bit of a nerd – the only girl with a lot of boys at chess championships.
BJORKThe 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.
BJORKThere 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.
BJORKI’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.
BJORKMaybe that was a strange, personal job between me and myself, to show how overreaching I was being as a woman. The only way I could express that was by comparing it to the universe.
BJORKWith 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.
BJORKPeople from the rock and roll world have felt for years that electronic music had no soul, but now electronic music can not only have soul but have all the shapes in the world.
BJORKFor 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.
BJORKI’d done three solo albums in a row, and that’s quite narcissistic.
BJORKI have to re-create the universe every morning when I wake up, and kill it in the evening.
BJORKIt’s important at that age to set up something, and then maybe afterwards you can go study your violin for 500 hours a week. But at least in the beginning you know about the options.
BJORKThere is this stereotype of Icelanders all believing in spirits, and I’ve played up to that a bit in interviews.
BJORKDeclare independence, don’t let them do that to you!
BJORKI was very aware when I went to the Academy Awards that it would probably be my first and last time. So I thought my input should really be about fertility, and I thought I’d bring some eggs.
BJORKKids draw masterpieces – they’re the best painters ever. I think the same with music. They could totally write amazing music if they just had the right tools.
BJORKGirls now are also faced with different problems. I’ve been guilty of one thing: After being the only girl in bands for 10 years.
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