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There is this stereotype of Icelanders all believing in spirits, and I’ve played up to that a bit in interviews.

Bjork

I have to re-create the universe every morning when I wake up, and kill it in the evening.
BJORK

Evening Morning Up Wake
Icelandic people are really educated. But maybe we are at where the people in the States were 50 years ago, where they think that stuff that isn’t done with a hammer or physical power is not a job. It’s that backwards.
BJORK

Done Educate People Thinking Year
I want to support young girls who are in their 20s now and tell them: You’re not just imagining things. It’s tough.
BJORK

Girl Guy Imagination Support
It wasn’t just one journalist getting it wrong, everybody was getting it wrong.
BJORK

Everybody Getting Journalist Wrong
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.
BJORK

Choirs Keyboard Past People Writing
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.
BJORK

Either Mourning Unwritten Windows
Everything that a guy says once, you have to say five times.
BJORK

Everything Guy Say Times
I am grateful… grapefruit.
BJORK

Fruit Grapes Grateful Honor
I learned what a lot of women have to do is make the guys in the room think it was their idea, and then you back them up.
BJORK

Guy Ideas Thinking
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.
BJORK

Music People Soul
I guess I’m quite used to not being understood rather than being understood.
BJORK

Guess Understood Used
People are always asking me about eskimos, but there are no eskimos in Iceland.
BJORK

Asking Iceland People
A lot of it is really bad sound, really low quality. So the librarian in me wants it at least to exist there so that in 20 years when I’m sitting in my rocking chair, it will still exist in the best sound quality possible, even though it only sold 1000 units or whatever.
BJORK

Best Low Possible Quality Rocking Sound Want
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.
BJORK

Everybody Friend Glue Technology
If I had a philosophy, it’s that I support the beautiful side of anarchy.
BJORK

Beautiful Philosophy Support
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.
BJORK

Failing Great People Risk Safe

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