Sometimes 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’m a fountain of blood. In the shape of a girl.
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Maybe 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.
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Everything that a guy says once, you have to say five times.
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Now that rock is turning 50, it’s become classical in itself. It’s interesting to see that development.
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The reason I do interviews is because I’m protecting my songs.
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It’s nice and quiet but soon again starts another big riot!
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If you were really good and practiced your violin for a few hours a day for ten years you might be invited to this VIP elite club.
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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.
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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’ve been traveling in Guatemala in the rainforest, and here all these houses are made of sticks. It seems so easy to make one.
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Declare independence, don’t let them do that to you!
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I feel the 21st century is another new age. Not only can we collaborate again with nature, but we have to. It’s an emergency.
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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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I’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.
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I want to support young girls who are in their 20s now and tell them: You’re not just imagining things. It’s tough.
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Formats 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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But I’m not interested in politics. I lose interest the microsecond it ceases to be emotional, when something becomes a political movement. What I’m interested in is emotions.
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In school, I guess I was a difficult, know-it-all type of student… I was always complaining that music education was too academic.
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I am grateful… grapefruit.
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In 2008, I was more just thinking about using the touchscreen for writing the songs. From there I started thinking about how I visualised music.
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I get embarrassed listening to my last CDs. I’ve got a lot of work to do, let’s put it that way.
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I 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.
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It’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.
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When I write a song, I see a tunnel, and then the chorus is an open space, or the bassline is doing this shape. I see songs as a more of a geometric, spacial experience.
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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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Emotions weren’t created to just lie around. You should experience things to the full. I’ve got a sense of the clock ticking.
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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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