It’s funny how the hippies and the punks tried to get rid of the conservatives, but they always seem to get the upper hand in the end.
BJORKI’ve always appreciated working with people I have chemistry with, who are friends, and where you feel that the work is growing while you are getting to know each other better.
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The reason I do photographs is to help people understand my music, so it’s very important that I am the same, emotionally, in the photographs as in the music.
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It’s incredible how nature sets females up to take care of people, and yet it is tricky for them to take care of themselves.
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I miss you, but I haven’t met you yet!
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I get embarrassed listening to my last CDs. I’ve got a lot of work to do, let’s put it that way.
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I want to support young girls who are in their 20s now and tell them: You’re not just imagining things. It’s tough.
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I guess I’m quite used to not being understood rather than being understood.
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It’s nice and quiet but soon again starts another big riot!
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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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All we had ever heard about record company people is that they were vampires and criminals…and they killed Elvis Presley.
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I have to re-create the universe every morning when I wake up, and kill it in the evening.
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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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You get inspired and you can go write one song from that, and then you go back and play a few shows. If I could’ve done that in the 90s, I would have.
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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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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.
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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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I’m not that keen on fierce dictatorship. I think that sort of the point of working with somebody is them coming up with stuff and feeling free to do that.
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There’s more to Life than this
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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.
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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 think every year brings unknowns that you have to deal with and handle, confront and embrace.
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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.
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I’m not as religious as some people about “the album.” To be honest, that was a product of a format. You had vinyl, and you could fit five songs on each side, and that’s 45 minutes.
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I don’t like records that are the same from beginning to end, that are too styled and slick.
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Kids draw masterpieces – they’re the best painters ever. I think the same with music. They could totally write amazing music if they just had the right tools.
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Everything that a guy says once, you have to say five times.
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Solar power, wind power, the way forward is to collaborate with nature – it’s the only way we are going to get to the other end of the 21st century.
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