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I’ve been traveling in Guatemala in the rainforest, and here all these houses are made of sticks. It seems so easy to make one.

Bjork

Icelandic people are really educated. But maybe we are at where the people in the States were 50 years ago, where they think that stuff that isn’t done with a hammer or physical power is not a job. It’s that backwards.
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Done Educate People Thinking Year
I don’t like records that are the same from beginning to end, that are too styled and slick.
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Beginning Perfect Records Stick Thinking
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.
BJORK

Generation Parent Strong Thinking
I’m a fountain of blood in the shape of a girl . . . leave me now return tonight tide will show you the way if you forget my name you will go astray like a killer whale trapped in a bay
BJORK

Blood Girl Leave Whale
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.
BJORK

News Political Reading
I definitely can feel the third or fourth feminist wave in the air, so maybe this is a good time to open that Pandora’s box a little bit and air it out.
BJORK

Air Feminist Littles Pandora
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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Complaining School Students
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.
BJORK

Conservative Part People Probably Sake
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
Our times seem to be so much about redefining where we are physical and where we’re not.
BJORK

Cutting Physical Sound Technology
In 2008, I was more just thinking about using the touchscreen for writing the songs. From there I started thinking about how I visualised music.
BJORK

Song Thinking Visualized Writing
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.
BJORK

Faced Girl Guilty Leaned Ten Years
If travel is searching and home what’s been found, I’m not stopping. I’m going hunting.
BJORK

Found Home Hunting Stopping
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.
BJORK

Electronic Music Rocks World Years
I’m not that keen on fierce dictatorship. I think that sort of the point of working with somebody is them coming up with stuff and feeling free to do that.
BJORK

Feelings Stuff Thinking
Seventy per cent humidity is ideal for vocal cords.
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Cents Cords Humidity Vocal

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