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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.

Bjork

I miss you, but I haven’t met you yet!
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Havens Mets Missing
Formats are just illusions, and it’s about the relationship between the person that makes music and the person that listens to music.
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Illusion Iron Make Mold Music Relationship
Personally, 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.
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Cake Choosing Flavors Ice Cream Personally Women
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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Appreciate Chemistry Friend Growing People
It takes a long time to fully become who you are.
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Becomes Long Take Time
Everything is so designed and airbrushed and Botoxed, it makes us think, ‘Oh, everybody’s perfect except me. Everything’s smooth except me.’ But nothing is smooth.
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Everything Example Nothing Perfect Smooth
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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Body Half Mind
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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Creative Good Relationships Work
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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Believe Interview Spirit
I am one of the most idiosyncratic people around.
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Idiosyncratic Most People
Everything that a guy says once, you have to say five times.
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Everything Guy Say Times
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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Energy Ideas Want
i’m back at my cliff still throwing things off i listen to the sounds they make on their way down i follow him with my eyes ’till they crash imagine what my body would sound like slamming against those rocks.
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Eye Eyes Harm Self Slamming Sound Suicide
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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Behavior Helping Maps
It’s incredible how nature sets females up to take care of people, and yet it is tricky for them to take care of themselves.
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Care Females People
I 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.
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Generation Parent Strong Thinking
If you were really good and practiced your violin for a few hours a day for ten years you might be invited to this VIP elite club.
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Few Hour Invited Learned might Obsessed Practiced
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.
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Guy Ideas Thinking
Kids draw masterpieces – they’re the best painters ever. I think the same with music. They could totally write amazing music if they just had the right tools.
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Kids Thinking Writing
I love being a very personal singer-songwriter, but I also like being a scientist or explorer.
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Scientists Singers Songwriter
I have always had a certain song in my head, a certain chemistry of sounds.
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Chemistry Song Sound
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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Emotion Feel Lying Powerful Probably
I guess I’m quite used to not being understood rather than being understood.
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Guess Understood Used
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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Express Myself Overreaching Show Universe
I get highs, to be totally honest, in second-hand shops. My hunting instinct, I expect, really kicks in.
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Getting Hands High Hunting
When I started writing, I fought against it. I thought it was way too boring and predictable. But most of the time, it just happens; there’s nothing you can do. You have to let it be what it is.
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Boring Happen Nothing Predicatable
National Geographic contacted me about getting on their label, and I was like, ‘Wow, I want to be label mates with the sharks and lemurs!’
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Labels Lemurs Sharks

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