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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.

Bjork

You’re a coward if you don’t stand up. Not for you, but for women. Say something.
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Coward Something Stand
People are always asking me about eskimos, but there are no eskimos in Iceland.
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Asking Iceland People
When I was 20, political music was the uncoolest thing on earth. But when Bush got elected, that was the first time I started actually reading the news.
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News Political Reading
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.
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Developed Emotion Music Photograph Understanding
I love being a very personal singer-songwriter, but I also like being a scientist or explorer.
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Scientists Singers Songwriter
Part of me is probably more conservative than people realise. I like my old string quartets, I don’t like music that’s trippy for trippy’s sake.
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Conservative Part People Probably Sake
If I had a philosophy, it’s that I support the beautiful side of anarchy.
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Beautiful Philosophy Support
It’s nice and quiet but soon again starts another big riot!
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Big Nice Quiet
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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Air Feminist Littles Pandora
I get highs, to be totally honest, in second-hand shops. My hunting instinct, I expect, really kicks in.
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Getting Hands High Hunting
I’d done three solo albums in a row, and that’s quite narcissistic.
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Albums Narcissistic Three
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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Format People Product Religious Song
You want people to take risks, and OK, they fail, but you don’t get the great stuff unless people are willing to risk and not play it safe. And maybe the Icelandic characteristic is better harnessed in these places than on the stock market.
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Failing Great People Risk Safe
I was very aware when I went to the Academy Awards that it would probably be my first and last time. So I thought my input should really be about fertility, and I thought I’d bring some eggs.
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Awards Eggs Input
Sometimes when I write lyrics there are images in them, usually on a quite simplistic level, like colors. But most often music comes first and then later I sit down with visual people and we chat about what we want to do. I don’t look at myself as a visual artist. I make music.
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Artist Color Image Writing
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

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