In school, I guess I was a difficult, know-it-all type of student… I was always complaining that music education was too academic.
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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I guess I’m quite used to not being understood rather than being understood.
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People that complete other people’s vision are understated.
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When I was 18, science, physics, and math were my favorite. I was a bit of a nerd – the only girl with a lot of boys at chess championships.
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There’s more to Life than this
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I’d done three solo albums in a row, and that’s quite narcissistic.
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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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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.
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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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Usually when you see females in movies, they feel like they have these metallic structures around them, they are caged in by male energy.
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How could I be so immature to think you could replace the missing elements in me. How extremely lazy of me.
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Maybe I’ll be a feminist in my old age.
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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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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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When I met Apple, I made it very clear that I am an old punk and I have never done commercials or been sponsored. And I wasn’t after their money.
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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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There’s something about the rhythm of walking, how, after about an hour and a half, the mind and body can’t help getting in sync.
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i thrive best hermit style. with a beard and a pipe.
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I do try and wear stuff by unknown designers, and I make sure I pay because if nothing else I have money.
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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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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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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.
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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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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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If I had a philosophy, it’s that I support the beautiful side of anarchy.
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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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