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.
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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When I was a teenager in Iceland people would throw rocks and shout abuse at me because they thought I was weird. I never got that in London no matter what I wore.
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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.
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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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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.
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When I was 20, political music was the uncoolest thing on earth. But when Bush got elected, that was the first time I started actually reading the news.
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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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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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When 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.
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Icelandic people are really educated. But maybe we are at where the people in the States were 50 years ago, where they think that stuff that isn’t done with a hammer or physical power is not a job. It’s that backwards.
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There’s definitely, definitely, definitely, no logic to human behaviour . . . There’s no map And a compass Wouldn’t help at all
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You’re a coward if you don’t stand up. Not for you, but for women. Say something.
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I get highs, to be totally honest, in second-hand shops. My hunting instinct, I expect, really kicks in.
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I feel the 21st century is another new age. Not only can we collaborate again with nature, but we have to. It’s an emergency.
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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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I love being a very personal singer-songwriter, but I also like being a scientist or explorer.
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