I don’t really have an ego. I’m not that bothered.
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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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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Most people’s eyes are much better developed than their ears. If they see a certain emotion in the photograph, then they’ll understand the music.
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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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I think every year brings unknowns that you have to deal with and handle, confront and embrace.
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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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The reason I do interviews is because I’m protecting my songs.
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You want people to take risks, and OK, they fail, but you don’t get the great stuff unless people are willing to risk and not play it safe. And maybe the Icelandic characteristic is better harnessed in these places than on the stock market.
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I have always had a certain song in my head, a certain chemistry of sounds.
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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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Our times seem to be so much about redefining where we are physical and where we’re not.
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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.
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I definitely can feel the third or fourth feminist wave in the air, so maybe this is a good time to open that Pandora’s box a little bit and air it out.
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You shouldn’t let poets lie to you.
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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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In school, I guess I was a difficult, know-it-all type of student… I was always complaining that music education was too academic.
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I’m a whisper in water.
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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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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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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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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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I knew if certain people recommended something, it would be good. There’s always going to be those people. It just depends on what they’re called: curators or radio jockeys or bloggers.
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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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If travel is searching and home what’s been found, I’m not stopping. I’m going hunting.
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As a singer-songwriter, what I do is write about how the human feels.
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How could I be so immature to think you could replace the missing elements in me. How extremely lazy of me.
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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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