I’ve never done an album like this. With Biophilia, I was being like Kofi Annan – I had to be the pacifist to try to unite the impossible.
BJORKSometimes, 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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I’m no buddhist, but this is fu**ing enlightmentment
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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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I have always had a certain song in my head, a certain chemistry of sounds.
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I don’t expect people to get me. That would be quite arrogant. I think there are a lot of people out there in the world that nobody gets.
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You get inspired and you can go write one song from that, and then you go back and play a few shows. If I could’ve done that in the 90s, I would have.
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Being a musician is very easy. My house is full of musical instruments. There’s a lot of music, always.
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I don’t really have an ego. I’m not that bothered.
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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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The English can be a very critical, unforgiving people, but criticism can be good. And this is a country that loves comedy.
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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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Declare independence, don’t let them do that to you!
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Singing is like a celebration of oxygen.
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I find it so amazing when people tell me that electronic music has no soul. You can’t blame the computer. If there’s no soul in the music, it’s because nobody put it there.
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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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Usually when you see females in movies, they feel like they have these metallic structures around them, they are caged in by male energy.
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