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As a singer-songwriter, what I do is write about how the human feels.

Bjork

As a singer-songwriter, what I do is write about how the human feels.
BJORK

Singers Songwriter Writing
I don’t expect people to get me. That would be quite arrogant. I think there are a lot of people out there in the world that nobody gets.
BJORK

Arrogant People Quiet Thinking
I do try and wear stuff by unknown designers, and I make sure I pay because if nothing else I have money.
BJORK

Money Pay Stuff Trying
It wasn’t just one journalist getting it wrong, everybody was getting it wrong.
BJORK

Everybody Getting Journalist Wrong
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.
BJORK

Electronic Music Rocks World Years
I try not to record them on my Dictaphone when I first hear them. If I forget all about it and it pops up later on, then I know it’s good enough. I let my subconscious do the editing for me.
BJORK

Ending Hear Pop Record Subconsciousness
I am one of the most idiosyncratic people around.
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Idiosyncratic Most People
I’ve written arrangements for choirs and strings in the past, but I usually write music with my voice or a keyboard and then I’ll get someone who is good at writing scores to write it out. Or, if I have the luxury of time.
BJORK

Choirs Keyboard Past People Writing
Most people’s eyes are much better developed than their ears. If they see a certain emotion in the photograph, then they’ll understand the music.
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Developed Emotion Music Photograph Understanding
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.
BJORK

Express Myself Overreaching Show Universe
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.
BJORK

Everybody Friend Glue Technology
Everything is so designed and airbrushed and Botoxed, it makes us think, ‘Oh, everybody’s perfect except me. Everything’s smooth except me.’ But nothing is smooth.
BJORK

Everything Example Nothing Perfect Smooth
There’s definitely, definitely, definitely, no logic to human behaviour . . . There’s no map And a compass Wouldn’t help at all
BJORK

Behavior Helping Maps
It’s nice and quiet but soon again starts another big riot!
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Big Nice Quiet
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.
BJORK

Creative Good Relationships Work
Seventy per cent humidity is ideal for vocal cords.
BJORK

Cents Cords Humidity Vocal
I don’t really have an ego. I’m not that bothered.
BJORK

Bothered Ego Really
I will go in a room and hear the people perform and then change it through what I hear, not on paper. I can read music OK, but I probably rebelled a little – music changes into something else when you read it.
BJORK

Music Paper People Something
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.
BJORK

Crashed Discovered Nation Percentage Roof
I’d done three solo albums in a row, and that’s quite narcissistic.
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Albums Narcissistic Three
I love England. It’s no coincidence it’s the first place I moved to for a more cosmopolitan life, which is the only thing Iceland lacks.
BJORK

Composition Country Firsts Iceland
It takes a long time to fully become who you are.
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Becomes Long Take Time
Solar power, wind power, the way forward is to collaborate with nature – it’s the only way we are going to get to the other end of the 21st century.
BJORK

Century Forward Way Wind
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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Emotion Feel Lying Powerful Probably
I’m not going to talk like I know about politics, because I’m a total amateur, but maybe I can be a spokesperson for people who aren’t normally interested in politics.
BJORK

Amateur Going Knows People Politics Talk
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.
BJORK

Guatemala House Sticks
I miss you, but I haven’t met you yet!
BJORK

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