Girls now are also faced with different problems. I’ve been guilty of one thing: After being the only girl in bands for 10 years.
BJORKWhen I write a song, I see a tunnel, and then the chorus is an open space, or the bassline is doing this shape. I see songs as a more of a geometric, spacial experience.
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If you were really good and practiced your violin for a few hours a day for ten years you might be invited to this VIP elite club.
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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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I get embarrassed listening to my last CDs. I’ve got a lot of work to do, let’s put it that way.
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I am one of the most idiosyncratic people around.
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Nature is our chapel.
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It takes a long time to fully become who you are.
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Every time there’s a new format, the iron is hot, and you can mold it.
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I get highs, to be totally honest, in second-hand shops. My hunting instinct, I expect, really kicks in.
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People that complete other people’s vision are understated.
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When I started writing, I fought against it. I thought it was way too boring and predictable. But most of the time, it just happens; there’s nothing you can do. You have to let it be what it is.
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When I met Apple, I made it very clear that I am an old punk and I have never done commercials or been sponsored. And I wasn’t after their money.
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Singing is like a celebration of oxygen.
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I’m not going to talk like I know about politics, because I’m a total amateur, but maybe I can be a spokesperson for people who aren’t normally interested in politics.
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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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I have always had a certain song in my head, a certain chemistry of sounds.
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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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You want people to take risks, and OK, they fail, but you don’t get the great stuff unless people are willing to risk and not play it safe. And maybe the Icelandic characteristic is better harnessed in these places than on the stock market.
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For a person as obsessed with music as I am, I always hear a song in the back of my head, all the time, and that usually is my own tune. I’ve done that all my life.
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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.
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Over the last 10 years, there have been so many incredible albums created in bedrooms by people who never would’ve gotten an album deal.
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Everything that a guy says once, you have to say five times.
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Personally, I think choosing between men and women is like choosing between cake and ice cream. You’d be daft not to try both when there are so many different flavours.
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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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The English can be a very critical, unforgiving people, but criticism can be good. And this is a country that loves comedy.
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As a singer-songwriter, what I do is write about how the human feels.
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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.
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