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People are always going to need physicality; they’re going to want to meet other people even more. I’ve got faith in the physical angle. People have their needs. They won’t forget about them.

Bjork

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.
BJORK

Song Thinking Visualized Writing
In school, I guess I was a difficult, know-it-all type of student… I was always complaining that music education was too academic.
BJORK

Complaining School Students
I knew if certain people recommended something, it would be good. There’s always going to be those people. It just depends on what they’re called: curators or radio jockeys or bloggers.
BJORK

Blogger Depend Jockey Recommended Something
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
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
People from the rock and roll world have felt for years that electronic music had no soul, but now electronic music can not only have soul but have all the shapes in the world.
BJORK

Electronic Music Rocks World Years
It takes a long time to fully become who you are.
BJORK

Becomes Long Take Time
We’re always mourning things that have died. It’s a bit much sometimes. These studios have no fresh air, and there’s this unwritten rule that they don’t have windows, either.
BJORK

Either Mourning Unwritten Windows
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
I’ve never done an album like this. With Biophilia, I was being like Kofi Annan – I had to be the pacifist to try to unite the impossible.
BJORK

Biophilia Done Strange Trying
I was very aware when I went to the Academy Awards that it would probably be my first and last time. So I thought my input should really be about fertility, and I thought I’d bring some eggs.
BJORK

Awards Eggs Input
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
Most people’s eyes are much better developed than their ears. If they see a certain emotion in the photograph, then they’ll understand the music.
BJORK

Developed Emotion Music Photograph Understanding
I find it so amazing when people tell me that electronic music has no soul. You can’t blame the computer. If there’s no soul in the music, it’s because nobody put it there.
BJORK

Music People Soul
But I’m not interested in politics. I lose interest the microsecond it ceases to be emotional, when something becomes a political movement. What I’m interested in is emotions.
BJORK

Emotional Movement Political
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.
BJORK

Age Century Collaborate Emergencies

People are always going to need physicality; they’re going to want to meet other people even more. I’ve got faith in the physical angle. People have their needs. They won’t forget about them.

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People are always going to need physicality; they’re going to want to meet other people even more. I’ve got faith in the physical angle. People have their needs. They won’t forget about them.

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