I lose energy and I can’t do as many things as I want. So I have to plan days when I’m not doing anything. I find that a bit boring, but it’s necessary.
BJORKI lose energy and I can’t do as many things as I want. So I have to plan days when I’m not doing anything. I find that a bit boring, but it’s necessary.
BJORKSinging is like a celebration of oxygen.
BJORKEverything that a guy says once, you have to say five times.
BJORKI’m self-sufficient. I spend a lot of time on my own and I shut off quite easily. When I communicate, I communicate 900 per cent, then I shut off, which scares people sometimes.
BJORKI do try and wear stuff by unknown designers, and I make sure I pay because if nothing else I have money.
BJORKI think every year brings unknowns that you have to deal with and handle, confront and embrace.
BJORKWhen 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.
BJORKA lot of it is really bad sound, really low quality. So the librarian in me wants it at least to exist there so that in 20 years when I’m sitting in my rocking chair, it will still exist in the best sound quality possible, even though it only sold 1000 units or whatever.
BJORKIf travel is searching and home what’s been found, I’m not stopping. I’m going hunting.
BJORKFor 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.
BJORKI love being a very personal singer-songwriter, but I also like being a scientist or explorer.
BJORKI’m no buddhist, but this is fu**ing enlightmentment
BJORKI 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.
BJORKI am grateful… grapefruit.
BJORKIt wasn’t just one journalist getting it wrong, everybody was getting it wrong.
BJORKIt’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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