Over the last 10 years, there have been so many incredible albums created in bedrooms by people who never would’ve gotten an album deal.
BJORKI don’t really have an ego. I’m not that bothered.
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I mean, I’ve never been thinking that if you’re a fan you have to buy everything that somebody puts out. I mean, you’ve got a choice. If you don’t want it, just don’t buy it. It’s also a reaction to YouTube and sharing of files.
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What probably confuses people is they know a lot about me, but it quite pleases me that there’s more they don’t know.
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If nothing else, I have money.
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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 don’t like records that are the same from beginning to end, that are too styled and slick.
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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.
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There are certain emotions in your body that not even your best friend can sympathize with, but you will find the right film or the right book, and it will understand you.
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I have always had a certain song in my head, a certain chemistry of sounds.
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There’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.
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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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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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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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There is this stereotype of Icelanders all believing in spirits, and I’ve played up to that a bit in interviews.
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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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Singing is like a celebration of oxygen.
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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 am grateful… grapefruit.
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The reason I do photographs is to help people understand my music, so it’s very important that I am the same, emotionally, in the photographs as in the music.
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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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It takes a long time to fully become who you are.
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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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Girls now are also faced with different problems. I’ve been guilty of one thing: After being the only girl in bands for 10 years.
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It’s funny how the hippies and the punks tried to get rid of the conservatives, but they always seem to get the upper hand in the end.
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I’d done three solo albums in a row, and that’s quite narcissistic.
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With tons of chaotic supply on the internet, you’re going to have people who become very good at being curators or stylists. It’s the same sort of people that I used to go to record shops for.
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If I had a philosophy, it’s that I support the beautiful side of anarchy.
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