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.
BJORKEverything 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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The reason I do photographs is to help people understand my music, so it’s very important that I am the same, emotionally, in the photographs as in the music.
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With tons of chaotic supply on the internet, you’re going to have people who become very good at being curators or stylists. It’s the same sort of people that I used to go to record shops for.
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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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Everything that a guy says once, you have to say five times.
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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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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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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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I have always had a certain song in my head, a certain chemistry of sounds.
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If you can make nature and technology friends, then you can make everyone friends; you can make everyone intact. That’s what women do a lot – they’re the glue between a lot of things.
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You shouldn’t let poets lie to you.
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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.
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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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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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There’s more to Life than this
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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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