Everything is so designed and airbrushed and Botoxed, it makes us think, ‘Oh, everybody’s perfect except me. Everything’s smooth except me.’ But nothing is smooth.
BJORKI 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.
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When I was a teenager in Iceland people would throw rocks and shout abuse at me because they thought I was weird. I never got that in London no matter what I wore.
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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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It’s important at that age to set up something, and then maybe afterwards you can go study your violin for 500 hours a week. But at least in the beginning you know about the options.
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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.
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The reason I do photographs is to help people understand my music, so it’s very important that I am the same, emotionally, in the photographs as in the music.
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It seems that most the world is driven by the eye, right? They design cities to look great but they always sound horrible …
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People that complete other people’s vision are understated.
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As a singer-songwriter, what I do is write about how the human feels.
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I feel like the people from Iceland have a different relationship with their country than other places.
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It’s funny how the hippies and the punks tried to get rid of the conservatives, but they always seem to get the upper hand in the end.
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How could I be so immature to think you could replace the missing elements in me. How extremely lazy of me.
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I love being a very personal singer-songwriter, but I also like being a scientist or explorer.
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It takes a long time to fully become who you are.
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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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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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