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.
BJORKIn 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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Everything that a guy says once, you have to say five times.
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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 feel the 21st century is another new age. Not only can we collaborate again with nature, but we have to. It’s an emergency.
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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’m a fountain of blood in the shape of a girl . . . leave me now return tonight tide will show you the way if you forget my name you will go astray like a killer whale trapped in a bay
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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.
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I guess I’m quite used to not being understood rather than being understood.
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There’s more to Life than this
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Sometimes, when I have a lot of ideas and I want to do a lot of things, or when I’m traveling,
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Every time there’s a new format, the iron is hot, and you can mold it.
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I have always had a certain song in my head, a certain chemistry of sounds.
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I will go in a room and hear the people perform and then change it through what I hear, not on paper. I can read music OK, but I probably rebelled a little – music changes into something else when you read it.
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Nature is our chapel.
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Seventy per cent humidity is ideal for vocal cords.
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Pedaling through the dark currents, I find an accurate copy. A blue print of the pleasure in me.
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