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I love being a very personal singer-songwriter, but I also like being a scientist or explorer.

Bjork

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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Anything Doing Lose Necessary
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.
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Song Thinking Visualized Writing
People are always asking me about eskimos, but there are no eskimos in Iceland.
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Asking Iceland People
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.
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Choirs Keyboard Past People Writing
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.
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Biophilia Done Strange Trying
Singing is like a celebration of oxygen.
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Celebration Oxygen Singing
I don’t like records that are the same from beginning to end, that are too styled and slick.
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Beginning Perfect Records Stick Thinking
I think every year brings unknowns that you have to deal with and handle, confront and embrace.
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Embrace Thinking Years
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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Composition Country Firsts Iceland
Every time there’s a new format, the iron is hot, and you can mold it.
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Every Format Mold Time
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.
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Conservatives Hands Hippie Upper
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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Girl Guy Imagination Support
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!’
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Labels Lemurs Sharks
Formats are just illusions, and it’s about the relationship between the person that makes music and the person that listens to music.
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Illusion Iron Make Mold Music Relationship
I feel like the people from Iceland have a different relationship with their country than other places.
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Country Iceland Place War
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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Communicate Easily People Scare Self

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