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I have a very happy, healthy relationship with the country, so it’s really easy to go everywhere because I always have Iceland to go back to. It’s sort of a contradiction, but that’s how it works somehow.

Bjork

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
They design telephones to look great, but they sound horrible. I think it was about time that the other senses were celebrated.
BJORK

Design Horrible Sound Telephone
It seems that most the world is driven by the eye, right? They design cities to look great but they always sound horrible …
BJORK

Cities Eye Great Look Thinking
I get highs, to be totally honest, in second-hand shops. My hunting instinct, I expect, really kicks in.
BJORK

Getting Hands High Hunting
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.
BJORK

Artist Color Image Writing
As a singer-songwriter, what I do is write about how the human feels.
BJORK

Singers Songwriter Writing
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
I’m no buddhist, but this is fu**ing enlightmentment
BJORK

Buddhist Enlightenment Hope
Maybe I’ll be a feminist in my old age.
BJORK

Age Feminist Maybe Old
I want to support young girls who are in their 20s now and tell them: You’re not just imagining things. It’s tough. Everything that a guy says once, you have to say five times.
BJORK

Everything Girl Men Once Say Support
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!’
BJORK

Labels Lemurs Sharks
I guess I’m quite used to not being understood rather than being understood.
BJORK

Guess Understood Used
I don’t like records that are the same from beginning to end, that are too styled and slick.
BJORK

Beginning Perfect Records Stick Thinking
People are always asking me about eskimos, but there are no eskimos in Iceland.
BJORK

Asking Iceland People
Everything that a guy says once, you have to say five times.
BJORK

Five Guy Imagining Things
I have always had a certain song in my head, a certain chemistry of sounds.
BJORK

Chemistry Song Sound

I have a very happy, healthy relationship with the country, so it’s really easy to go everywhere because I always have Iceland to go back to. It’s sort of a contradiction, but that’s how it works somehow.

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I have a very happy, healthy relationship with the country, so it’s really easy to go everywhere because I always have Iceland to go back to. It’s sort of a contradiction, but that’s how it works somehow.

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