Personally, I think choosing between men and women is like choosing between cake and ice cream. You’d be daft not to try both when there are so many different flavours.
BJORKThere is this stereotype of Icelanders all believing in spirits, and I’ve played up to that a bit in interviews.
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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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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.
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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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I lose energy and I can’t do as many things as I want. So I have to plan days when I’m not doing anything. I find that a bit boring, but it’s necessary.
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Everything that a guy says once, you have to say five times.
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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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People are always asking me about eskimos, but there are no eskimos in Iceland.
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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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Now that rock is turning 50, it’s become classical in itself. It’s interesting to see that development.
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I love England. It’s no coincidence it’s the first place I moved to for a more cosmopolitan life, which is the only thing Iceland lacks.
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It’s important at that age to set up something, and then maybe afterwards you can go study your violin for 500 hours a week. But at least in the beginning you know about the options.
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If you were really good and practiced your violin for a few hours a day for ten years you might be invited to this VIP elite club.
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It takes a long time to fully become who you are.
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I get highs, to be totally honest, in second-hand shops. My hunting instinct, I expect, really kicks in.
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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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As a singer-songwriter, what I do is write about how the human feels.
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People ask me questions like, “Oh, you look so theatrical in your photographs. Is that what you’re like when you walk down the street?” It’s like, “Of course not.” It’s such a silly question – it’s like being theatrical is a crime.
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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’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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People are always going to need physicality; they’re going to want to meet other people even more. I’ve got faith in the physical angle. People have their needs. They won’t forget about them.
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I guess I’m quite used to not being understood rather than being understood.
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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.
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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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The reason I do interviews is because I’m protecting my songs.
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It’s nice and quiet but soon again starts another big riot!
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You shouldn’t let poets lie to you.
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