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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

And then within the past 10 years Iceland discovered the stock market and it just went, went, went, went, went. I think it hit a roof and it’s just crashed. Just a small percentage of the nation did a lot of damage.
BJORK

Crashed Discovered Nation Percentage Roof
They design telephones to look great, but they sound horrible. I think it was about time that the other senses were celebrated.
BJORK

Design Horrible Sound Telephone
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.
BJORK

Chorus Song Writing
I do try and wear stuff by unknown designers, and I make sure I pay because if nothing else I have money.
BJORK

Money Pay Stuff Trying
I will go in a room and hear the people perform and then change it through what I hear, not on paper. I can read music OK, but I probably rebelled a little – music changes into something else when you read it.
BJORK

Music Paper People Something
As a singer-songwriter, what I do is write about how the human feels.
BJORK

Singers Songwriter Writing
Football is a fertility festival. Eleven sperm trying to get into the egg. I feel sorry for the goalkeeper.
BJORK

Eggs Football Sorry
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.
BJORK

Back Done Few Inspired Show
Maybe that was a strange, personal job between me and myself, to show how overreaching I was being as a woman. The only way I could express that was by comparing it to the universe.
BJORK

Express Myself Overreaching Show Universe
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.
BJORK

Anything Doing Lose Necessary
But I’m not interested in politics. I lose interest the microsecond it ceases to be emotional, when something becomes a political movement. What I’m interested in is emotions.
BJORK

Emotional Movement Political
I’m no buddhist, but this is fu**ing enlightmentment
BJORK

Buddhist Enlightenment Hope
I miss you, but I haven’t met you yet!
BJORK

Havens Mets Missing
How could I be so immature to think you could replace the missing elements in me. How extremely lazy of me.
BJORK

Dream Lazy Love Thinking
National Geographic contacted me about getting on their label, and I was like, ‘Wow, I want to be label mates with the sharks and lemurs!’
BJORK

Labels Lemurs Sharks
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

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