Maybe it’s just a personal thing, but I get so much grounding from Iceland because I know it’s always going to be there.
BJORKAs a singer-songwriter, what I do is write about how the human feels.
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Love is a two way dream.
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I’m a whisper in water.
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I get highs, to be totally honest, in second-hand shops. My hunting instinct, I expect, really kicks in.
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I guess I’m quite used to not being understood rather than being understood.
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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. Everything that a guy says once, you have to say five times.
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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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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.
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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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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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People 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.
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It’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.
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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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They design telephones to look great, but they sound horrible. I think it was about time that the other senses were celebrated.
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I am one of the most idiosyncratic people around.
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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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