When I was a teenager in Iceland people would throw rocks and shout abuse at me because they thought I was weird. I never got that in London no matter what I wore.
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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I don’t like records that are the same from beginning to end, that are too styled and slick.
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With 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.
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I think after Iceland’s independence in 1944, we were not very sure of ourselves and our confidence was really low. It took one generation to sort of get over that. I’m second generation.
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Personally, I think choosing between men and women is like choosing between cake and ice cream. You’d be daft not to try both when there are so many different flavours.
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Sometimes, when I have a lot of ideas and I want to do a lot of things, or when I’m traveling,
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I love being a very personal singer-songwriter, but I also like being a scientist or explorer.
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You’re a coward if you don’t stand up. Not for you, but for women. Say something.
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The 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.
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I miss you, but I haven’t met you yet!
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I do try and wear stuff by unknown designers, and I make sure I pay because if nothing else I have money.
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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.
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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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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.
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If travel is searching and home what’s been found, I’m not stopping. I’m going hunting.
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If you can make nature and technology friends, then you can make everyone friends; you can make everyone intact. That’s what women do a lot – they’re the glue between a lot of things.
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