I’m not as religious as some people about “the album.” To be honest, that was a product of a format. You had vinyl, and you could fit five songs on each side, and that’s 45 minutes.
BJORKWhen 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.
More Bjork Quotes
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I’m a fountain of blood. In the shape of a girl.
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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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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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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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I’m not that keen on fierce dictatorship. I think that sort of the point of working with somebody is them coming up with stuff and feeling free to do that.
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I have a very happy, healthy relationship with the country, so it’s really easy to go everywhere because I always have Iceland to go back to. It’s sort of a contradiction, but that’s how it works somehow.
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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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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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If nothing else, I have money.
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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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If you wake up / And the day feels broken / Just lean into the crack
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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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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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As a singer-songwriter, what I do is write about how the human feels.
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In 2008, I was more just thinking about using the touchscreen for writing the songs. From there I started thinking about how I visualised music.
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