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I’d done three solo albums in a row, and that’s quite narcissistic.

Bjork

They design telephones to look great, but they sound horrible. I think it was about time that the other senses were celebrated.
BJORK

Design Horrible Sound Telephone
People are always asking me about eskimos, but there are no eskimos in Iceland.
BJORK

Asking Iceland People
I feel the 21st century is another new age. Not only can we collaborate again with nature, but we have to. It’s an emergency.
BJORK

Age Century Collaborate Emergencies
I don’t really have an ego. I’m not that bothered.
BJORK

Bothered Ego Really
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.
BJORK

Creative Good Relationships Work
All we had ever heard about record company people is that they were vampires and criminals…and they killed Elvis Presley.
BJORK

Criminals People Vampire
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.
BJORK

Needs People Physically Wants
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.
BJORK

Anything Doing Lose Necessary
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.
BJORK

Biophilia Done Strange Trying
I’m no buddhist, but this is fu**ing enlightmentment
BJORK

Buddhist Enlightenment Hope
Football is a fertility festival. Eleven sperm trying to get into the egg. I feel sorry for the goalkeeper.
BJORK

Eggs Football Sorry
Maybe it’s just a personal thing, but I get so much grounding from Iceland because I know it’s always going to be there.
BJORK

Country Healthy Iceland
I get highs, to be totally honest, in second-hand shops. My hunting instinct, I expect, really kicks in.
BJORK

Getting Hands High Hunting
National Geographic contacted me about getting on their label, and I was like, ‘Wow, I want to be label mates with the sharks and lemurs!’
BJORK

Labels Lemurs Sharks
I’m self-sufficient. I spend a lot of time on my own and I shut off quite easily. When I communicate, I communicate 900 per cent, then I shut off, which scares people sometimes.
BJORK

Communicate Easily People Scare Self
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.
BJORK

Everything Example Nothing Perfect Smooth
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.
BJORK

Important Options Something Study
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
Singing is like a celebration of oxygen.
BJORK

Celebration Oxygen Singing
If nothing else, I have money.
BJORK

Else Money Nothing
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.
BJORK

Developed Emotion Music Photograph Understanding
I love being a very personal singer-songwriter, but I also like being a scientist or explorer.
BJORK

Scientists Singers Songwriter
Maybe I’ll be a feminist in my old age.
BJORK

Age Feminist Maybe Old
You shouldn’t let poets lie to you.
BJORK

Life Lying Poet
People that complete other people’s vision are understated.
BJORK

People Understated Vision
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.
BJORK

Boring Happen Nothing Predicatable
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

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