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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.

Bjork

I 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.
BJORK

Awards Eggs Input
What probably confuses people is they know a lot about me, but it quite pleases me that there’s more they don’t know.
BJORK

Confused Know More People Please
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
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.
BJORK

Song Thinking Visualized Writing
I am grateful… grapefruit.
BJORK

Fruit Grapes Grateful Honor
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.
BJORK

Conservative Part People Probably Sake
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.
BJORK

Important Options Something Study
I don’t like records that are the same from beginning to end, that are too styled and slick.
BJORK

Beginning Perfect Records Stick 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
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
I have a very happy, healthy relationship with the country, so it’s really easy to go everywhere because I always have Iceland to go back to. It’s sort of a contradiction, but that’s how it works somehow.
BJORK

Contradiction Country Everywhere Relationship
Seventy per cent humidity is ideal for vocal cords.
BJORK

Cents Cords Humidity Vocal
I’m not as religious as some people about “the album.” To be honest, that was a product of a format. You had vinyl, and you could fit five songs on each side, and that’s 45 minutes.
BJORK

Format People Product Religious Song
For a person as obsessed with music as I am, I always hear a song in the back of my head, all the time, and that usually is my own tune. I’ve done that all my life.
BJORK

Done Person Song Time Tunes
i thrive best hermit style. with a beard and a pipe.
BJORK

Beard Hermits Style
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.
BJORK

Artist Color Image Writing

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