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.
BJORKI’ve always had as many powerful, creative ladies in my life as I have men, and you could probably describe some of those relationships as romantic.
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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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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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I think every year brings unknowns that you have to deal with and handle, confront and embrace.
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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 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.
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I think after Iceland’s independence in 1944, we were not very sure of ourselves and our confidence was really low. It took one generation to sort of get over that. I’m second generation.
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I’m a fountain of blood in the shape of a girl . . . leave me now return tonight tide will show you the way if you forget my name you will go astray like a killer whale trapped in a bay
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I don’t really have an ego. I’m not that bothered.
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You shouldn’t let poets lie to you.
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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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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.
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It’s incredible how nature sets females up to take care of people, and yet it is tricky for them to take care of themselves.
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Emotions weren’t created to just lie around. You should experience things to the full. I’ve got a sense of the clock ticking.
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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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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.
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