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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.

Bjork

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.
BJORK

Composition Country Firsts Iceland
For a person as obsessed with music as I am, I always hear a song in the back of my head, all the time, and that usually is my own tune. I’ve done that all my life.
BJORK

Done Person Song Time Tunes
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 find it so amazing when people tell me that electronic music has no soul. You can’t blame the computer. If there’s no soul in the music, it’s because nobody put it there.
BJORK

Music People Soul
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.
BJORK

Faced Girl Guilty Leaned Ten Years
There’s definitely, definitely, definitely, no logic to human behaviour . . . There’s no map And a compass Wouldn’t help at all
BJORK

Behavior Helping Maps
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
If you were really good and practiced your violin for a few hours a day for ten years you might be invited to this VIP elite club.
BJORK

Few Hour Invited Learned might Obsessed Practiced
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
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.
BJORK

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

Country Iceland Place War
If nothing else, I have money.
BJORK

Else Money Nothing
Football is a fertility festival. Eleven sperm trying to get into the egg. I feel sorry for the goalkeeper.
BJORK

Eggs Football Sorry
Pedaling through the dark currents, I find an accurate copy. A blue print of the pleasure in me.
BJORK

Blue Dark Evil
You’re a coward if you don’t stand up. Not for you, but for women. Say something.
BJORK

Coward Something Stand
Being a musician is very easy. My house is full of musical instruments. There’s a lot of music, always.
BJORK

House Musical Musician
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
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.
BJORK

Century Forward Way Wind
It takes a long time to fully become who you are.
BJORK

Becomes Long Take Time
Seventy per cent humidity is ideal for vocal cords.
BJORK

Cents Cords Humidity Vocal
It wasn’t just one journalist getting it wrong, everybody was getting it wrong.
BJORK

Everybody Getting Journalist Wrong
In school, I guess I was a difficult, know-it-all type of student… I was always complaining that music education was too academic.
BJORK

Complaining School Students
But I’m not interested in politics. I lose interest the microsecond it ceases to be emotional, when something becomes a political movement. What I’m interested in is emotions.
BJORK

Emotional Movement Political
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
Now that rock is turning 50, it’s become classical in itself. It’s interesting to see that development.
BJORK

Interesting Rocks Turning
Maybe that was a strange, personal job between me and myself, to show how overreaching I was being as a woman. The only way I could express that was by comparing it to the universe.
BJORK

Express Myself Overreaching Show Universe
You shouldn’t let poets lie to you.
BJORK

Life Lying Poet

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