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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.

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Football is a fertility festival. Eleven sperm trying to get into the egg. I feel sorry for the goalkeeper.
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Eggs Football Sorry
The reason I do interviews is because I’m protecting my songs.
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Interviews Reason Song
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.
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Back Done Few Inspired Show
Pedaling through the dark currents, I find an accurate copy. A blue print of the pleasure in me.
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Blue Dark Evil
All we had ever heard about record company people is that they were vampires and criminals…and they killed Elvis Presley.
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Criminals People Vampire
I have a very happy, healthy relationship with the country, so it’s really easy to go everywhere because I always have Iceland to go back to. It’s sort of a contradiction, but that’s how it works somehow.
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Contradiction Country Everywhere Relationship
I get embarrassed listening to my last CDs. I’ve got a lot of work to do, let’s put it that way.
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Cds Listening Way
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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Bisexual Men Powerful
I love being a very personal singer-songwriter, but I also like being a scientist or explorer.
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Scientists Singers Songwriter
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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Believe Interview Spirit
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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Dream Lazy Love Thinking
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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Important Options Something Study
I’m not as religious as some people about “the album.” To be honest, that was a product of a format. You had vinyl, and you could fit five songs on each side, and that’s 45 minutes.
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Format People Product Religious Song
You want people to take risks, and OK, they fail, but you don’t get the great stuff unless people are willing to risk and not play it safe. And maybe the Icelandic characteristic is better harnessed in these places than on the stock market.
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Failing Great People Risk Safe
$Bjork Quote - When I was 18, science, physics, and math were my favorite. I was a bit of a nerd – the only girl with a lot of boys at chess championships.$

When I was 18, science, physics, and math were my favorite. I was a bit of a nerd – the only girl with a lot of boys at chess championships.
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Boys Chess Favorite Girl Math
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.
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Feelings Stuff Thinking
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.
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Boring Happen Nothing Predicatable
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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News Political Reading
I’ve never done an album like this. With Biophilia, I was being like Kofi Annan – I had to be the pacifist to try to unite the impossible.
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Biophilia Done Strange Trying
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.
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Air Feminist Littles Pandora
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.
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Electronic Music Rocks World Years
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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Few Hour Invited Learned might Obsessed Practiced
Love is a two way dream.
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Dream Love Way
I am grateful… grapefruit.
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Fruit Grapes Grateful Honor
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.
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Ending Hear Pop Record Subconsciousness
I don’t expect people to get me. That would be quite arrogant. I think there are a lot of people out there in the world that nobody gets.
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Arrogant People Quiet Thinking
When I write a song, I see a tunnel, and then the chorus is an open space, or the bassline is doing this shape. I see songs as a more of a geometric, spacial experience.
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Chorus Song Writing

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