Our times seem to be so much about redefining where we are physical and where we’re not.
BJORKIt’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’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.
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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.
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I’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.
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A lot of it is really bad sound, really low quality. So the librarian in me wants it at least to exist there so that in 20 years when I’m sitting in my rocking chair, it will still exist in the best sound quality possible, even though it only sold 1000 units or whatever.
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It seems that most the world is driven by the eye, right? They design cities to look great but they always sound horrible …
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I do try and wear stuff by unknown designers, and I make sure I pay because if nothing else I have money.
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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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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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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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I’ve always appreciated working with people I have chemistry with, who are friends, and where you feel that the work is growing while you are getting to know each other better.
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I love being a very personal singer-songwriter, but I also like being a scientist or explorer.
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Football is a fertility festival. Eleven sperm trying to get into the egg. I feel sorry for the goalkeeper.
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Declare independence, don’t let them do that to you!
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You shouldn’t let poets lie to you.
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I 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.
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