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I’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.

Bjork

Singing is like a celebration of oxygen.
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Celebration Oxygen Singing
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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Song Thinking Visualized Writing
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.
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News Political Reading
People that complete other people’s vision are understated.
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People Understated Vision
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.
BJORK

Important Options Something Study
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.
BJORK

Done Educate People Thinking Year
It’s funny how the hippies and the punks tried to get rid of the conservatives, but they always seem to get the upper hand in the end.
BJORK

Conservatives Hands Hippie Upper
I do try and wear stuff by unknown designers, and I make sure I pay because if nothing else I have money.
BJORK

Money Pay Stuff Trying
All we had ever heard about record company people is that they were vampires and criminals…and they killed Elvis Presley.
BJORK

Criminals People Vampire
There is this stereotype of Icelanders all believing in spirits, and I’ve played up to that a bit in interviews.
BJORK

Believe Interview Spirit
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.
BJORK

Express Myself Overreaching Show Universe
I’m self-sufficient. I spend a lot of time on my own and I shut off quite easily. When I communicate, I communicate 900 per cent, then I shut off, which scares people sometimes.
BJORK

Communicate Easily People Scare Self
And then within the past 10 years Iceland discovered the stock market and it just went, went, went, went, went. I think it hit a roof and it’s just crashed. Just a small percentage of the nation did a lot of damage.
BJORK

Crashed Discovered Nation Percentage Roof
Maybe I’ll be a feminist in my old age.
BJORK

Age Feminist Maybe Old
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
I’d done three solo albums in a row, and that’s quite narcissistic.
BJORK

Albums Narcissistic Three

I’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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