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I feel like the people from Iceland have a different relationship with their country than other places.

Bjork

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
I’m not going to talk like I know about politics, because I’m a total amateur, but maybe I can be a spokesperson for people who aren’t normally interested in politics.
BJORK

Amateur Going Knows People Politics Talk
Being a musician is very easy. My house is full of musical instruments. There’s a lot of music, always.
BJORK

House Musical Musician
I don’t expect people to get me. That would be quite arrogant. I think there are a lot of people out there in the world that nobody gets.
BJORK

Arrogant People Quiet Thinking
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.
BJORK

Song Thinking Visualized Writing
I’m a whisper in water.
BJORK

Emotion Water White
Emotions weren’t created to just lie around. You should experience things to the full. I’ve got a sense of the clock ticking.
BJORK

Emotion Feel Lying Powerful Probably
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.
BJORK

Apples Done Punk
Singing is like a celebration of oxygen.
BJORK

Celebration Oxygen Singing
I guess I’m quite used to not being understood rather than being understood.
BJORK

Guess Understood Used
And then within the past 10 years Iceland discovered the stock market and it just went, went, went, went, went. I think it hit a roof and it’s just crashed. Just a small percentage of the nation did a lot of damage.
BJORK

Crashed Discovered Nation Percentage Roof
I am one of the most idiosyncratic people around.
BJORK

Idiosyncratic Most People
I feel like the people from Iceland have a different relationship with their country than other places.
BJORK

Country Iceland Place War
When I was a teenager in Iceland people would throw rocks and shout abuse at me because they thought I was weird. I never got that in London no matter what I wore.
BJORK

Country Iceland Rocks Teenager
I have written most of my melodies walking and I feel it is definitely one of the most helpful ways of sewing all of the different things in your life together and seeing the whole picture.
BJORK

Different Together Way
People from the rock and roll world have felt for years that electronic music had no soul, but now electronic music can not only have soul but have all the shapes in the world.
BJORK

Electronic Music Rocks World Years

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