Maybe I’ll be a feminist in my old age.
BJORKMaybe I’ll be a feminist in my old age.
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.
BJORKI’m no buddhist, but this is fu**ing enlightmentment
BJORKIn school, I guess I was a difficult, know-it-all type of student… I was always complaining that music education was too academic.
BJORKWhen I started writing, I fought against it. I thought it was way too boring and predictable. But most of the time, it just happens; there’s nothing you can do. You have to let it be what it is.
BJORKI’d done three solo albums in a row, and that’s quite narcissistic.
BJORKSometimes, when I have a lot of ideas and I want to do a lot of things, or when I’m traveling,
BJORKYou 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.
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.
BJORKI don’t like records that are the same from beginning to end, that are too styled and slick.
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.
BJORKI learned what a lot of women have to do is make the guys in the room think it was their idea, and then you back them up.
BJORKAnd 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.
BJORKI’m a fountain of blood in the shape of a girl . . . leave me now return tonight tide will show you the way if you forget my name you will go astray like a killer whale trapped in a bay
BJORKI’m not that keen on fierce dictatorship. I think that sort of the point of working with somebody is them coming up with stuff and feeling free to do that.
BJORKNature is our chapel.
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