If travel is searching and home what’s been found, I’m not stopping. I’m going hunting.
BJORKIf travel is searching and home what’s been found, I’m not stopping. I’m going hunting.
BJORKI feel like the people from Iceland have a different relationship with their country than other places.
BJORKPeople 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.
BJORKPeople that complete other people’s vision are understated.
BJORKThere’s something about the rhythm of walking, how, after about an hour and a half, the mind and body can’t help getting in sync.
BJORKThe English can be a very critical, unforgiving people, but criticism can be good. And this is a country that loves comedy.
BJORKI 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.
BJORKPersonally, 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.
BJORKEmotions weren’t created to just lie around. You should experience things to the full. I’ve got a sense of the clock ticking.
BJORKDeclare independence, don’t let them do that to you!
BJORKWhen 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.
BJORKI’m self-sufficient. I spend a lot of time on my own and I shut off quite easily. When I communicate, I communicate 900 per cent, then I shut off, which scares people sometimes.
BJORKI definitely can feel the third or fourth feminist wave in the air, so maybe this is a good time to open that Pandora’s box a little bit and air it out.
BJORKI have to re-create the universe every morning when I wake up, and kill it in the evening.
BJORKIf 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.
BJORKI 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.
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