I learned what a lot of women have to do is make the guys in the room think it was their idea, and then you back them up.
BJORKFormats 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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People ask me questions like, “Oh, you look so theatrical in your photographs. Is that what you’re like when you walk down the street?” It’s like, “Of course not.” It’s such a silly question – it’s like being theatrical is a crime.
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In 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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I don’t expect people to get me. That would be quite arrogant. I think there are a lot of people out there in the world that nobody gets.
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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 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 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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I try not to record them on my Dictaphone when I first hear them. If I forget all about it and it pops up later on, then I know it’s good enough. I let my subconscious do the editing for me.
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If I had a philosophy, it’s that I support the beautiful side of anarchy.
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Nature is our chapel.
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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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I don’t like records that are the same from beginning to end, that are too styled and slick.
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Icelandic people are really educated. But maybe we are at where the people in the States were 50 years ago, where they think that stuff that isn’t done with a hammer or physical power is not a job. It’s that backwards.
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What probably confuses people is they know a lot about me, but it quite pleases me that there’s more they don’t know.
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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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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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