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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.

Bjork

I try not to record them on my Dictaphone when I first hear them. If I forget all about it and it pops up later on, then I know it’s good enough. I let my subconscious do the editing for me.
BJORK

Ending Hear Pop Record Subconsciousness
You get inspired and you can go write one song from that, and then you go back and play a few shows. If I could’ve done that in the 90s, I would have.
BJORK

Back Done Few Inspired Show
If you wake up / And the day feels broken / Just lean into the crack
BJORK

Broken Cracks Day Wake
I just feel like making things solar-powered and wind-powered should be as easy as using an iPad.
BJORK

Easy Ipads Powered Wind
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
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.
BJORK

Boring Happen Nothing Predicatable
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
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.
BJORK

Course Looks People Silly Walk
National Geographic contacted me about getting on their label, and I was like, ‘Wow, I want to be label mates with the sharks and lemurs!’
BJORK

Labels Lemurs Sharks
Seventy per cent humidity is ideal for vocal cords.
BJORK

Cents Cords Humidity Vocal
People are always asking me about eskimos, but there are no eskimos in Iceland.
BJORK

Asking Iceland People
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.
BJORK

Kids Thinking Writing
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
Our times seem to be so much about redefining where we are physical and where we’re not.
BJORK

Cutting Physical Sound Technology
I am one of the most idiosyncratic people around.
BJORK

Idiosyncratic Most People
I love England. It’s no coincidence it’s the first place I moved to for a more cosmopolitan life, which is the only thing Iceland lacks.
BJORK

Composition Country Firsts Iceland

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