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 want to support young girls who are in their 20s now and tell them: You’re not just imagining things. It’s tough. Everything that a guy says once, you have to say five times.
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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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I’ve been traveling in Guatemala in the rainforest, and here all these houses are made of sticks. It seems so easy to make one.
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Seventy per cent humidity is ideal for vocal cords.
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I just feel like making things solar-powered and wind-powered should be as easy as using an iPad.
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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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I love being a very personal singer-songwriter, but I also like being a scientist or explorer.
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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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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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Football is a fertility festival. Eleven sperm trying to get into the egg. I feel sorry for the goalkeeper.
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I’m a whisper in water.
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We’re always mourning things that have died. It’s a bit much sometimes. These studios have no fresh air, and there’s this unwritten rule that they don’t have windows, either.
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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’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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I’ve written arrangements for choirs and strings in the past, but I usually write music with my voice or a keyboard and then I’ll get someone who is good at writing scores to write it out. Or, if I have the luxury of time.
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I guess I’m quite used to not being understood rather than being understood.
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It wasn’t just one journalist getting it wrong, everybody was getting it wrong.
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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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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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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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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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When I met Apple, I made it very clear that I am an old punk and I have never done commercials or been sponsored. And I wasn’t after their money.
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The reason I do interviews is because I’m protecting my songs.
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Maybe it’s just a personal thing, but I get so much grounding from Iceland because I know it’s always going to be there.
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People are always asking me about eskimos, but there are no eskimos in Iceland.
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