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.
BJORKMaybe it’s just a personal thing, but I get so much grounding from Iceland because I know it’s always going to be there.
More Bjork Quotes
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Maybe I’ll be a feminist in my old age.
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I have written most of my melodies walking and I feel it is definitely one of the most helpful ways of sewing all of the different things in your life together and seeing the whole picture.
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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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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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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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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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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.
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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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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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If I had a philosophy, it’s that I support the beautiful side of anarchy.
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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’ve always appreciated working with people I have chemistry with, who are friends, and where you feel that the work is growing while you are getting to know each other better.
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There is this stereotype of Icelanders all believing in spirits, and I’ve played up to that a bit in interviews.
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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.
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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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