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.
BJORKIt seems that most the world is driven by the eye, right? They design cities to look great but they always sound horrible …
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I’m no buddhist, but this is fu**ing enlightmentment
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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.
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I feel like the people from Iceland have a different relationship with their country than other places.
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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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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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It’s important at that age to set up something, and then maybe afterwards you can go study your violin for 500 hours a week. But at least in the beginning you know about the options.
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People are always asking me about eskimos, but there are no eskimos in Iceland.
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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 you can make nature and technology friends, then you can make everyone friends; you can make everyone intact. That’s what women do a lot – they’re the glue between a lot of things.
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When I write a song, I see a tunnel, and then the chorus is an open space, or the bassline is doing this shape. I see songs as a more of a geometric, spacial experience.
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They design telephones to look great, but they sound horrible. I think it was about time that the other senses were celebrated.
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Maybe it’s just a personal thing, but I get so much grounding from Iceland because I know it’s always going to be there.
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I’m not going to talk like I know about politics, because I’m a total amateur, but maybe I can be a spokesperson for people who aren’t normally interested in politics.
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I have to re-create the universe every morning when I wake up, and kill it in the evening.
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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.
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