People are always asking me about eskimos, but there are no eskimos in Iceland.
BJORKI’ve written arrangements for choirs and strings in the past, but I usually write music with my voice or a keyboard and then I’ll get someone who is good at writing scores to write it out. Or, if I have the luxury of time.
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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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I’ve always had as many powerful, creative ladies in my life as I have men, and you could probably describe some of those relationships as romantic.
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It wasn’t just one journalist getting it wrong, everybody was getting it wrong.
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Love is a two way dream.
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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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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.
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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’m a whisper in water.
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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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I guess I’m quite used to not being understood rather than being understood.
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Everything that a guy says once, you have to say five times.
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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.
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Seventy per cent humidity is ideal for vocal cords.
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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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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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