As a singer-songwriter, what I do is write about how the human feels.
BJORKI’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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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 don’t like records that are the same from beginning to end, that are too styled and slick.
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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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i thrive best hermit style. with a beard and a pipe.
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I learned what a lot of women have to do is make the guys in the room think it was their idea, and then you back them up.
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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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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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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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Nature is our chapel.
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People are always going to need physicality; they’re going to want to meet other people even more. I’ve got faith in the physical angle. People have their needs. They won’t forget about them.
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Maybe I’ll be a feminist in my old age.
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I miss you, but I haven’t met you yet!
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Love is a two way dream.
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I have always had a certain song in my head, a certain chemistry of sounds.
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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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