What probably confuses people is they know a lot about me, but it quite pleases me that there’s more they don’t know.
BJORKAnd 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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There’s definitely, definitely, definitely, no logic to human behaviour . . . There’s no map And a compass Wouldn’t help at all
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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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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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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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You shouldn’t let poets lie to you.
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You’re a coward if you don’t stand up. Not for you, but for women. Say something.
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Kids draw masterpieces – they’re the best painters ever. I think the same with music. They could totally write amazing music if they just had the right tools.
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I’m no buddhist, but this is fu**ing enlightmentment
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Part of me is probably more conservative than people realise. I like my old string quartets, I don’t like music that’s trippy for trippy’s sake.
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Our times seem to be so much about redefining where we are physical and where we’re not.
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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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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’m back at my cliff still throwing things off i listen to the sounds they make on their way down i follow him with my eyes ’till they crash imagine what my body would sound like slamming against those rocks.
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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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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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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.
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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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I don’t really have an ego. I’m not that bothered.
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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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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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I’m a whisper in water.
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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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Pedaling through the dark currents, I find an accurate copy. A blue print of the pleasure in me.
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i thrive best hermit style. with a beard and a pipe.
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In school, I guess I was a difficult, know-it-all type of student… I was always complaining that music education was too academic.
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