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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.

Bjork

I want to support young girls who are in their 20s now and tell them: You’re not just imagining things. It’s tough. Everything that a guy says once, you have to say five times.
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Everything Girl Men Once Say Support
For a person as obsessed with music as I am, I always hear a song in the back of my head, all the time, and that usually is my own tune. I’ve done that all my life.
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Done Person Song Time Tunes
Singing is like a celebration of oxygen.
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Celebration Oxygen Singing
If I had a philosophy, it’s that I support the beautiful side of anarchy.
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Beautiful Philosophy Support
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’m a fountain of blood. In the shape of a girl.
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Blood Body Girl
It’s a sign that you have a good work relationship if you don’t have to analyze. That’s usually a good sign within creative work.
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Creative Good Relationships Work
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
If you wake up / And the day feels broken / Just lean into the crack
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Broken Cracks Day Wake
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
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
Now that rock is turning 50, it’s become classical in itself. It’s interesting to see that development.
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Interesting Rocks Turning
Maybe I’ll be a feminist in my old age.
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Age Feminist Maybe Old
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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Emotion Feel Lying Powerful Probably
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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Either Mourning Unwritten Windows
The English can be a very critical, unforgiving people, but criticism can be good. And this is a country that loves comedy.
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Country Criticism People

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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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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